Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b53ce90d5bef187…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f78a4222053ce5abfbc7e7fc57cf2470 SHA-1: f2330af00d973777943141d53d7d27bcfd7b61ea SHA-256: 2b53ce90d5bef18727e857345c0048bbf1ea09d29f9ae2e528f2aae0d8342e96
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 indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Qbot is known for its ability to steal financial information and spread laterally within networks. The file's nature as a dropper suggests it is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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