Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8238c657faf98f9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f001610edc704a9903b5e0f98b8f77b7 SHA-1: 4ce42be102f7026576f8bcb9602a4779e744ef88 SHA-256: b8238c657faf98f9a6aaf10a21fc29267376bdd61ca3554c320b29e59b894da4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant used for dropping additional malware. The file's nature as an Excel document further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector to trick users into enabling macros, which would then execute the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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