Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53a5bd33123d5d7c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9173b8ee58216973cbe6f96a7c648653 SHA-1: 586b3bfbdda45e31d52b31137fc125c394968d86 SHA-256: 53a5bd33123d5d7c1efb27469b1aa6bb3a0c28b5274dc8882d315cc409cd77eb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link

The file is an Excel spreadsheet 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 malicious code to download and run a further stage. The heuristic firing strongly suggests a Qbot family infection.

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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