Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 247d1660241468b9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 879ae969f17a24a03eebe82e2160db3d SHA-1: 9142a341ea7dd9b25816e9e11e53419729c1ca1a SHA-256: 247d1660241468b97df7b8d7b6fe08137fc9f3403e7c1c392a5958b4eeffd35c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious code. The heuristic firing suggests the file acts as a downloader for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 1

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