Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5055d2a36ca30552…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 55253b6cc7a771d07135dec56fc26dba SHA-1: 502c6c2e6dd5abf63fb7bc07cbabc27805137edd SHA-256: 5055d2a36ca305529de7b6e34cfb9b5f71a2ea489c16d244b42245f609a5ddf5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel spreadsheet. The CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The file's purpose is to act as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 1

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