Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fef044c766450da…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 534a6fa911b5e7b2cea7f3fbe2e4457d SHA-1: c8039052c868cf9ea4a7afcb9e107fd6824b3481 SHA-256: 8fef044c766450da384aa65083e78d9cb6b11177d89dc3ad91894844e4545b91
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop further malicious content. The detection suggests it functions as a dropper, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel file to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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