Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4284dce915831e3a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dde0444ff4cc4cf3cfd8fc7c80fc6742 SHA-1: f8e9b8d18d16a043c0dee6d83a5a9e3e4be4b4ed SHA-256: 4284dce915831e3ad36a9edc19b568a5c921e6f2d3b713890d0c89921703c6b7
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', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the file's purpose is to act as a dropper for a Qbot payload. The document's structure and metadata are consistent with malicious macro-enabled documents used for initial infection.

Heuristics 1

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