Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4252e35b8733e5bd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ca62e9989b021d72b188d6022a90484c SHA-1: 6cdfa339320d7d7c07997cd94ec9b33c7dfa9cf7 SHA-256: 4252e35b8733e5bd13bc519ba00a16b3db9336b5162dee9858b68e6cbc821755
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The primary function appears to be the initial infection vector for a Qbot campaign. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly indicative of its malicious nature.

Heuristics 1

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