Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5373bd7c5560f2e3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d9f9ebe283d64e8a0d373cd90d15df73 SHA-1: c8fd1cc2a9e9b212fc97c22f71d43b2931356799 SHA-256: 5373bd7c5560f2e3e8a2a13362f4ce1334d4047c6c73fc649514360406c1f191
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, a known Qbot variant. This indicates the spreadsheet likely contains malicious macros intended to download and execute a second-stage payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The presence of macro-related heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Heuristics 1

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