Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54655b16340c65a3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 000e502b7fe44ffa746a0b332e49b034 SHA-1: 9a221415cf304402f799974a99ae067166eed01b SHA-256: 54655b16340c65a383119fc226bcdad28018e1b0db1772e53f95176e07cc4339
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet flagged by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics indicates it likely uses embedded VBA to initiate the malicious download and execution process.

Heuristics 1

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