Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57164504ed4fb8ee…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 88f738638d7c8469134cce0424039595 SHA-1: 2adce77ad7ee7e3c17fff7319440f8588f58d276 SHA-256: 57164504ed4fb8ee3d05475b7e91cf92be77f0af4ab413f6babd040b461d9707
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 drop a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality within an Excel document. This points to a phishing attack where the user is tricked into opening the malicious spreadsheet.

Heuristics 1

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