Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b956e85043dcf064…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c5e81b87951c78353bba540f7e1e3da1 SHA-1: 7c1a9aca527177eb026184f1b9b017a314fb12f2 SHA-256: b956e85043dcf064966ec33b7e6c48f0bfab8c94055b5c45e4dc8e087ccd385a
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 a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The heuristic firing strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely involving social engineering to trick the user into opening the document and enabling macros.

Heuristics 1

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