Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50da4411943ac538…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8bebf24d7d0180d0ba9926d4d0e2e388 SHA-1: 3eeea8e29fac6b2cb33b091f5975489958372dde SHA-256: 50da4411943ac538e4ac4fa9d6b9549d4e8624579e4d4a7cd4be4c581e96d753
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the spreadsheet utilizes VBA to initiate the download and execution process, consistent with Qbot's typical delivery methods.

Heuristics 1

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