Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c7512b5ae7cd5f0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e8817e4f13ced832c3c0fec8b883a0ba SHA-1: 2ae446ded8377e742b75847160a3c463623442ac SHA-256: 2c7512b5ae7cd5f040e9fc0a9dbea1482fc5364a2a7ab460d272857b04630f45
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its nature as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary function of such documents is to trick users into enabling macros or exploiting vulnerabilities to download and execute a malicious payload. The heuristic firing directly points to its malicious intent as a dropper.

Heuristics 1

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