Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54bf20d78b8987b2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 907385da540363e7b6cb480b13f7bc4f SHA-1: edaae95b0b437ca7ee1b4d5e19c8d4b998f2ed38 SHA-256: 54bf20d78b8987b283c1f0c46069852aa7f4e2d46d537a6c8dba7cecd4887769
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded payload. No specific URLs or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly reliable.

Heuristics 1

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