Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52af591815c5c973…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ea5e582d3df91ff98fad5da7dcdbff92 SHA-1: 9ab50cc192a81c390a2a459da74ce15576280e5a SHA-256: 52af591815c5c97347f66ac875aa4e26271178072b3c15e3a92bb9746d491182
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file type is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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

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