Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d9881642871311…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d98b2f950dc73b87a619616b43c3bdad SHA-1: f85e77581625afe6dff9031e358bd203ae189364 SHA-256: 41d9881642871311fea0effea3981d3421f094271b396c5b84315269e53e1d92
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

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 it likely exploits macro execution to download and run a secondary stage payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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