Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54130ff8cf586501…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3a494b4bf5a6d76ffa033453257caa73 SHA-1: 8cbd03c491c26fbd890f85e63cbd089c482d8e04 SHA-256: 54130ff8cf586501fd00f16b4e32e390f08099bc8a64a4781816da3d883884fb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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