Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5ba22c816e670cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b87ba96896774f124e4716dc8bbd8733 SHA-1: 6c69261ae233fe20182234e698bbd5bfa7b87b04 SHA-256: f5ba22c816e670ccae738a74fc3606d14c3df6b895af72be02c5bdbfe911b815
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute the Qbot malware. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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