Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5f0484de5cf6c4a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cf3861540606b3ac765958c1d8a4c90d SHA-1: 4e5343e01bc7178a283e107d764bbb714acf929f SHA-256: a5f0484de5cf6c4a0138978dfb7c1593352f0dadaa3fab86e1ea42f1edba6a41
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot downloader. The file's purpose is to act as an initial infection vector, likely by leveraging macros to download and execute the Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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