Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5afbf8bf015503f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cb7603a88fedf9dacddb3f650f8fbf41 SHA-1: 07d25407bce41f28ba900a8e647596ba4d4f941b SHA-256: b5afbf8bf015503f306136a403359d21a7b750ef4645993d35552ac16787c052
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or other embedded exploits to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary identifier for this malicious file.

Heuristics 1

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