Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fe043f1edb7ae73…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fc10fc157c6de3234f8e095008d60794 SHA-1: a5969d2b0b401c39fad96125bbd8cc866a4c2859 SHA-256: 1fe043f1edb7ae7392bb43acc77eaa13ffe3d3b1d611264cb18c4f4769f84189
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically lures users into enabling macros, which then execute to download and run the Qbot malware. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, relying on user execution after macros are enabled.

Heuristics 1

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