Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 555c53ab8f1c571c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9303e4360ff3c055c9df0a1c131fd6cd SHA-1: 4a6c9446fd77e6d780628221eb4bab42a583f9b4 SHA-256: 555c53ab8f1c571c515e3886e3d1fe7001cba78878d18b17bf96cbf6d9c3fa1a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality within an Excel document, aligning with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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