Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5531cb07d676ebc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f928923b925796817122d873f7a528e7 SHA-1: 8eea0ddffbc75da62ee965ae7fc19e439f0a7161 SHA-256: f5531cb07d676ebc03be07363c528e75dd90abd707388dd50e847d4c4754a960
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting its purpose is to drop a Qbot payload. The detection name implies a dropper functionality, which is a common initial stage for Qbot infections. Further analysis would be needed to confirm the exact delivery mechanism and payload.

Heuristics 1

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