Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 441a784459eaa126…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 763e3c2ac1da271b3a916fb57b17b196 SHA-1: fe43806dc9dd1451309257f2d95e7b32207eaa1e SHA-256: 441a784459eaa12644100ff874f4481c3a6994113de71f85423681a32a631c60
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 is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically uses macros to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of this specific ClamAV signature is sufficient evidence to attribute it to the Qbot family and infer its malicious intent.

Heuristics 1

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