Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56a335ec7be1f726…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c557ab600f679fef71b660f5a4670683 SHA-1: ff80bbf2fb7ec01311018bc5c7217dc8887a1a0c SHA-256: 56a335ec7be1f726817e364dcb72c75c50045ecf53e01985f811d748dddc9b7e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant. This type of dropper typically relies on macro execution to download and run a secondary payload, aligning with the spearphishing attachment technique. The specific heuristic firing provides a direct indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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