Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5556a6726b908bb1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e14889fbe7ec0ed2d6bf0d2800c135f8 SHA-1: a809631e85e110d252a20e873186622f1c626d57 SHA-256: 5556a6726b908bb1ea793018a3d5bfbacb7a5f3c2f259aa334fa5c409dea3140
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 identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel file, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to download and execute a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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