Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec5be9ff35893978…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bdd4d10b57c725aa90524ca9d9df5a53 SHA-1: fc49b463cc69a23689a18e146b3c6dd04d31c3f7 SHA-256: ec5be9ff35893978509c67080dfaabe2cc44a9fbcdfbb8808384c690e9fe5f2c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This is consistent with Qbot's typical delivery methods.

Heuristics 1

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