Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4460b35a9db6d294…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b7b7a1db9abbc985fd52a4e055aaeac3 SHA-1: ae81db002b091cfb312c8423f8cb8f2eabcc0a2e SHA-256: 4460b35a9db6d294212ac18903fbf69b6ee7e30d5d675bd9c5d8ec9a31fc61a9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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