Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ea1e56b526d64db…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 523a3b6f04043496b81a1efce959e826 SHA-1: 3e1af521000c3e0850beb6813941b1f662130f29 SHA-256: 1ea1e56b526d64db17212149fd86c99903c2cbed0f6f9cce8aaa5f53f6ff14d9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open the malicious attachment, which then executes a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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