Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f05bc8548ef069b1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a69831ab353b5c1ae32229d849954a76 SHA-1: 0818ea0f755c4221119c0437a977a2d7241399fd SHA-256: f05bc8548ef069b18e5ed517349ed62a5f090a9ef5ec34c044ce81a447ecfbac
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. This aligns with typical Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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