Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d852923e58b5da9e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d272747eb6391092f738811ba5db38d1 SHA-1: 21643447ec92ebae1f6a2f5d8f2bbeef6390ed51 SHA-256: d852923e58b5da9e437781ed5eebd8599b1958622266d731408f7781bff0e0f3
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 spreadsheet. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as 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