Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 513818817e313590…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 08f672fd801c3ee46be1de3892e06b73 SHA-1: fb78d5d7a595eb708277c0317c36e39c978ebc4c SHA-256: 513818817e313590a32bcfd87c27b51e7e6636b200b9586d9106569943616793
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, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros, which would then initiate the download of a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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