Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 387550e949259a05…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0470e589bee669a11e512a3ed7c1475e SHA-1: adf95a71085528b33f137395708738b15f97d67f SHA-256: 387550e949259a0506dfa9c662678130d8d1343b5f53316f7a9bc1e9cad26d8d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020, strongly indicating it is a Qbot downloader. The file's metadata shows it was authored by Microsoft Excel, a common vector for macro-based malware delivery. The primary purpose is to drop and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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