Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53522d72869b2e0f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1d712394cdb1ec5be590a15449be2785 SHA-1: 0eb2391de7c939400aa8ddbd518bedcb62633fa0 SHA-256: 53522d72869b2e0fb58cb21b313010db1770584e5a0dc11e5b5d238276864e16
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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The detection indicates a macro-enabled document, which is a common delivery mechanism for Qbot, aiming to trick users into enabling macros to initiate the download and execution of further malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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