Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5268768f3b46dbb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: aef421708064def77f84a3e6b01f3c17 SHA-1: 5f7c01e05486aa8b7533c0bc46e15255fccee3fc SHA-256: d5268768f3b46dbbebdb2e3cca566730aa03f0f068e538c78e65a77a1836e19d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a malicious payload. The detection name implies macro-based execution, which is a common delivery method for Qbot. The file's purpose is to act as a dropper, initiating a malicious chain of execution.

Heuristics 1

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