Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5654d8898a08832d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8ac7963a7b5dc16123e161194bac93a6 SHA-1: 4b09f725f809c99652a99cdc4d2ff03c14b58e0f SHA-256: 5654d8898a08832dd2f054c71cd8e2cf26fdbf433893bc233be18b7ce1b66558
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the initial infection vector involves executing embedded VBA code. This code likely downloads and executes the final stage malware, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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

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