Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f52ceba9ab20d366…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 298d088af6277b9df6759a2a69b5223e SHA-1: febe7b4be0d7291cd92f235cfcbd622b5c723609 SHA-256: f52ceba9ab20d366bd1d47681fb8daca1e1ad89c8f54f9a408e6fbeede1a5378
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 detection name suggests it is an Excel document (Xls) that drops a payload. While no specific VBA or script content was provided, the heuristic firing is sufficient to infer its malicious intent as a downloader and executor of further malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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