Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dd2946e271203be…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0606163462d26fd32e6bf76bd0eb49c3 SHA-1: 486a662f0622cd6b40dacdfd5c4171b799f00e32 SHA-256: 2dd2946e271203be758ba28178527f5355d4a3950540441805891b4ddeedefe4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the Excel file's purpose is to act as a dropper, initiating the download and execution of a malicious payload. The file's metadata indicates it is an older Excel document, but the detection points to a current threat.

Heuristics 1

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