Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a0035e6aff3249…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 10a600cffedd51cf91622ec21af13de1 SHA-1: 02b0a9e4304d8497dfe8eb7ec4b38db1d5ffccb3 SHA-256: 50a0035e6aff32499e53a04a88af7da2f3e943f2dbfce33a7c45ed3081e7412d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its nature as a Qbot dropper. This type of malware typically relies on social engineering within documents to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute code to download and run a secondary payload. The detection signature itself serves as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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