Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 447d1b88ab3b1778…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f2bfe6ef4461612112fb86ec52ca54a5 SHA-1: 71c7c4ebe4bf81829bc977bc2bea5b71c21a886d SHA-256: 447d1b88ab3b1778bb2860b633f6d795ae0c12c9b600b2f06f9ff7c8220d96ac
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which would then likely initiate the download and execution of a secondary payload. The heuristic firing is critical and directly points to a known malware dropper.

Heuristics 1

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