Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8fd3807290ab846…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: da6f32792b9943754cccaf400b0d0207 SHA-1: a224a29b79e8ebb51b785f7b02faddaba34e3afb SHA-256: a8fd3807290ab8468c615bb1466b746a97d1f11c5500e0127eef6a02f169d727
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. ClamAV detection indicates it is a dropper for the Qbot family, likely leveraging a macro to download and execute a second-stage payload. The file's purpose is to initiate a malware infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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