Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f73c7fbfeb17308…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: eb2f8ef1bb624f16e308a39a349be096 SHA-1: 71ef398863a60725245d1397ead083c1b77e6922 SHA-256: 8f73c7fbfeb173085818fc9733f5c1b2d64def3030581fd2671e7166c8a93c7c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a Qbot dropper based on ClamAV heuristics. This type of malware typically uses malicious documents to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute a secondary payload. The specific Qbot variant suggests a focus on delivering further malicious stages.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0