Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd5b714b65a54669…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 117f2d7a303a3e3aeee0dc11117ff733 SHA-1: f184d1603027a677d9eea5451c9362a3ee75654a SHA-256: fd5b714b65a54669ace2c3aba963f6f60be5b40bacbe52fa207d9ca3bafabc07
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The Excel format indicates a likely phishing lure, requiring user interaction (macro enablement) to initiate the malicious payload delivery. No scripts or document body were extracted, but the heuristic 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