Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42c928759c4086e6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 246bf46b0871a1348d68905a2dc65376 SHA-1: bf271edefa2647cec5bde2b0dd1839e9cb8e5bf6 SHA-256: 42c928759c4086e6b061970e5dc5472015165fd8cd45878488f6fb00ba0fcb13
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot variant. The heuristic indicates it functions as a dropper, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel file 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