Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a50c816ac87cd0cf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5165514e808f4fc9e8cb1cbb206d89d7 SHA-1: 03185907bcd3c51159872359e06c7ea1c94237e8 SHA-256: a50c816ac87cd0cfc17529f44ac8fe8d26f6ea77102473806f1845f60eb1bfd2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. As an Excel document, it likely employs social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute to download and run a secondary payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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