Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b50b16e50918574c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0dcd35dbac59c38bc1fe5c0f27190be8 SHA-1: c4313ddb9f54100e4dd58317b08d77e59e67fd9d SHA-256: b50b16e50918574cb650e04d6cd8ee393e19a510f2b20f08d6b1963346a8ebc0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious 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