Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c94c1b90825b761…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5d134e463e9e7505e7d8a9b742a69515 SHA-1: 3bb7ab242e1a0b86eb359e1666651f6704101d0a SHA-256: 2c94c1b90825b761c1d06f1825ef1ce39d5f178e2ecb60a0aaa8079672fed01a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack vector involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which are then used to download and execute a secondary payload from a remote source. 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