Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8dc63dd890465af…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 38cd8f9becf41b0dc3356752cfbb270b SHA-1: 14344697d4f8af313c402eaf63e736346a3f5fdb SHA-256: a8dc63dd890465af6e1d12c8c8cc262fbcb5db4702a56bc50d909a7a38d6d4cb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or an embedded exploit to achieve this. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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