Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 594fda5aa803aa24…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7533ca1b556907c1793ee057de6ced21 SHA-1: 5bf593cb2d14721d4dbc309575de501398cfb1b5 SHA-256: 594fda5aa803aa242fcbbc57a0cb75487ea74dc4c12c5bc705fee36db1642bb2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded code to download and run a further stage. This aligns 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