Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1d5f85e8da5e201…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1a4403bd0f58c192e7a89aa4089d174d SHA-1: 8badee83ac6effe467b3000532def411197db889 SHA-256: a1d5f85e8da5e20153ef56dcad7328795496e714ab428d5d350ee4aa1c1e4784
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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 a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. 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