Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d037e5c2a14caa1a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 89495527e70f547e0b9243f955b7fb94 SHA-1: f19140cb5f1aa6b4311719e1656aef2ee3d7876b SHA-256: d037e5c2a14caa1ad7bec7a508b295e751106882549cdae23b0844ec84951590
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to deliver a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely through social engineering, tricking the user into opening the malicious Excel file, which then executes the dropped malware.

Heuristics 1

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