Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5260af173c30297…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b5ead36e21ea7999692536994f10f271 SHA-1: 05eff653914d216e23f81eaac272947616d36a61 SHA-256: a5260af173c30297b40733eb03a2624ef20062bcd9f6de3772aa3c8c632b6d5d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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