Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ad53ddfd5b361e0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ba027a484b0101be439b4868a2e7d1e3 SHA-1: a275a08a56931963480dc7e5b5b98c777f58b416 SHA-256: 1ad53ddfd5b361e0c572496ad0d0f3ea561223a3be42e59eee45285866254094
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's a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the payload execution.

Heuristics 1

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