Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5e0eed2000b2277…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 642d90955f23697e6109430d305755c7 SHA-1: d52d9c2270d88d206f2a12a60d7e3e7aac7cbd44 SHA-256: b5e0eed2000b227754779a439442eccae6c9a1112b71d27c29609f53269c4c75
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 flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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