Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae8a057e9d68606…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 978c4643757d478e325a3b6c15d01450 SHA-1: 40243aa4fa574afb500bdee7b4ccd2ca215596d4 SHA-256: 1ae8a057e9d6860620afc817b0cf96df70eb7f0781f49edc8d741d74fd2c298a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious code. The heuristic firing suggests a dropper functionality, typical for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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

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