Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 241b485e83753aeb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d4bb72e37052f66d83a72c379af692e8 SHA-1: 0b84fa2cc06fa53168baf10a6627c4796d0fba9b SHA-256: 241b485e83753aeb584170ef2f0b6136ab3bb03b4a1f0b8e729b460fef550431
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 drop a secondary payload. The detection name suggests it is a macro-enabled document (Xls.Dropper) associated with the Qbot family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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