Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 337a2819037832a1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b2da1640046c80570f6d3472e940b475 SHA-1: b0e1ccb98c1d0a1f9e687c930ee811f860b1310b SHA-256: 337a2819037832a17a65cf0cce3b3bd3c42fb83ee2322be5b8c564e4f9e8b8fe
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 detection name implies a macro-enabled Excel document used for initial infection. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to execute the embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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