Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54755fd536c53f62…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c3d922d3e511d0af1100b47d941986d5 SHA-1: de156f2c3b253cefe1aae83be8df260f9e8d8484 SHA-256: 54755fd536c53f62d4e0a048fc0ec43711b3c78c059d21ff1a2f0b56173d1ad0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely exploiting user interaction with the spreadsheet to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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