Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26edeafd26279a08…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 42e951fbeb25adddb28926f5743201ff SHA-1: f5de4ad304572ea9fafe22dd1e760c5a3c7758ad SHA-256: 26edeafd26279a0814b12a7e5eb98a2e4b7d50845570fe48b3cfb96ffe4c2730
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload to download and run further malicious code. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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