Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f05a45d83ec8df55…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4fe88d041afa708a1ad49ab18a9f46a4 SHA-1: 0fd3f239a5143a6db481dce88ccf81fbacbe4c5a SHA-256: f05a45d83ec8df55ee9b171e7c641640a41e15f262bee14e4c05f99960bbd57b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious content intended to be executed, likely through macro abuse or exploiting a vulnerability, to download and run further malware.

Heuristics 1

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