Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5cce3b827459658…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ac6856d281760a19a7e7870d2c3c00d0 SHA-1: 350d05c92d0b931a57e5414401de45fadbfea391 SHA-256: d5cce3b82745965820f36f3c5a3a76467ce8aa0a3846e224612b0906ac8c1a77
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document flagged by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The detection name implies macro-based execution, a common technique for Qbot to initiate its infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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