Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e5103da90cef095…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0ceeed99b6f1a6e295810c7100f32424 SHA-1: a9cd79c52fb35a3d226c8f1600499234a0b2c65c SHA-256: 2e5103da90cef09559fb55e8e63680c1b5726293768b0b99aa536f8dac442e82
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

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 heuristic firing indicates a dropper functionality, likely initiated by macro execution upon user interaction. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering to enable macros, leading to the execution of the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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