Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8fa42bcd6afaaa2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 68097377804d29ed9323c32403bafea5 SHA-1: 1c109444d48dea5e5bad0818f455f0aa08b0f13e SHA-256: f8fa42bcd6afaaa21394285d5f73cd7472192f7c64d8fe64e9625bfdc1d4f218
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting Qbot family involvement. The detection indicates a dropper functionality, likely relying on macro execution to download and execute a subsequent stage. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firing is sufficient for this assessment.

Heuristics 1

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