Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f172be352ecdd94…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 28673a4f4c7b372102fabe7cbb9c57c8 SHA-1: 1c47d6dc717b93d653711fce6bc961bc16cd8783 SHA-256: 1f172be352ecdd94100555782b6f253905a990e8177190ceea2b9a0804791a10
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 Malicious Link

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is 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 initiate the download and execution of the malicious content.

Heuristics 1

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