Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2915e024991553e9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2898239d55ce6845791fc8044fbf517f SHA-1: 570a5c080cbf52a8ad3961ec3eb57d93dce2aed7 SHA-256: 2915e024991553e9816db03584437a7bdb35839fab3a47729e8ac3ded20f29ae
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Office (OOXML) file type indicates it likely uses macro-based execution to achieve this. The primary attack vector is tricking the user into enabling macros, which is a common technique for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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