Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54e060262db39da8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5a6ed157be7c50d626d3247b38c20cee SHA-1: 9f49e5e830a011a54c81115914ac9b984e140c38 SHA-256: 54e060262db39da80148780f4c3a6cb0f5218809c6e1b593044a62bd49d46220
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute a malicious payload. The heuristic firing directly indicates a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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