Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5df498368184419…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 50be4d19003df747f4577de60f1d09b8 SHA-1: 576db3faf3f7d3e10f32371dcef0afa78425a2c9 SHA-256: f5df498368184419c91fcaa1191f40f238a1f4471f75834bfb64ea87d7cf19ec
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 delivering a malicious payload via a Microsoft Excel document, likely through social engineering tactics. The heuristic firing suggests the presence of malicious VBA or macro code designed to execute the secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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