Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5a144d16c5e9617…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6852b046eafa9136ffefa74f8babe4a5 SHA-1: 09dc04edf2bec4e3b01ce7c5f1923881986d39b5 SHA-256: f5a144d16c5e96176369e1940f0d08b0d824e3341512b8dcf4ee291a0f81fb89
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 tricking the user into opening a malicious Excel file that then executes a secondary payload. No scripts or document body were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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