Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50a440d0d984b897…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cedc90ca4588af15b7b0c65361a3ab14 SHA-1: 77efa1dd7f9ab3576040e218fca62b2c24afd2af SHA-256: 50a440d0d984b8979c605d8ad3d9ee8979323ea880138f9cac533d1eb2a66795
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests a Qbot-related dropper mechanism within an Office document.

Heuristics 1

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