Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f288c829a30664b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e2d615f7fb13942c44b5485b73c96395 SHA-1: ce48b1950d5e826e222e8b3b1b68511a09f20cd2 SHA-256: 2f288c829a30664b23700b9e52972e4b45f13d1a878c2d0b39899e845b7a34f4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests the initial stage involves executing malicious VBA code to download and execute a secondary payload. 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