Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b03b486815a9e12…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3c83bc741fe24149de7c5372040da831 SHA-1: 5d7aa7e0aabe93a2feee7933506bd5f6571cfd16 SHA-256: 2b03b486815a9e12f057e8a1162d169ee7e8d70fc65d66f81ce8350157aec830
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which would then likely initiate the download and execution of a secondary payload. The heuristic firing directly indicates a malicious dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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