Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 274e77acee1288d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 47474a9a58b547978a409d8eafcea5ce SHA-1: 178aa1d9183ce21e216dcf2b579bdb8b3f973485 SHA-256: 274e77acee1288d1837e23134f28dd2517ff2006c684c540085fede4905d240b
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, a known Qbot variant. This type of dropper typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute code to download and run a secondary payload. The heuristic firing strongly suggests this malicious behavior.

Heuristics 1

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