Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a20885123bba35a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 11e6f4972d631ad766923e8475cdac98 SHA-1: f69cedfa23c2b9be9b7bfb1b9e11101b9fa73602 SHA-256: 5a20885123bba35a5d2aec7142c698796c1f08d4fba36e37a3aabaf319c19ff7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely macro execution within the Excel file, leading to the download and execution of a second-stage malware. The heuristic firing directly points to its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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