Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5a52501c0668293…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 989ea07dab297da95a2053f49ad1e679 SHA-1: 5a3bfe5a788c88f370ff068f9f5ee13196fe1c42 SHA-256: b5a52501c06682930eb0f5030d936f05fce657acc64a813afc1543ef19ce6d14
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as a Qbot dropper, indicating its likely purpose is to download and execute the Qbot banking trojan. The file's metadata and lack of document body content further support its role as a malicious loader.

Heuristics 1

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