Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5355fcfd4e802591…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: eaff0f8511fc8ce6eccb1851ae404b5a SHA-1: a8769adedd1bb8a103bea8993b78df3d656d2faf SHA-256: 5355fcfd4e802591d4e6a22fc31612646d8bccb8345f8af41b7cfaab5e0f8f32
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 Malicious Link

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, a known Qbot variant. This type of dropper typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute a script to download and run a secondary payload. The detection name strongly suggests Qbot activity.

Heuristics 1

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