Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e9cacde4986010d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1349bb083a540fb2fd2f237b66275e8f SHA-1: c0467934b9f4b006019a5d0f3da4be1b7c64f25a SHA-256: 1e9cacde4986010da55a80cff736b8c0e36eb45f60a32384af226d24eaf4a968
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document.

Heuristics 1

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