Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50f8116778a03f2d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1f887f6b47914f8d7ca77052d1ff9a0f SHA-1: bfe378eee1e8b7126012ab23229db1c03e11d3d9 SHA-256: 50f8116778a03f2db6ecfd57ee0bfdd74e6b3e5c7bcdd4fb1e34ce317d2cc160
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The critical heuristic firing suggests the Excel document contains malicious content intended to execute a secondary payload upon opening, likely leveraging macro execution.

Heuristics 1

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