Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 595352e8b204eb4a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f6ed120d13b209d82c98b2183eb11ff4 SHA-1: 389e9e3ab08c98bf96b640d2b29440bef1e2ba7a SHA-256: 595352e8b204eb4a3166cfd4899dad2546deac3e726563ffade0dc0e54209731
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its nature as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary function of such documents is to execute malicious code, likely via embedded macros, to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution tactics.

Heuristics 1

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