Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44d4f43bf538f796…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a6a5afabefa98d31db4b41944f21686b SHA-1: 7f90b6faa1ad914dfc889977f66883f5ac0145cc SHA-256: 44d4f43bf538f796e722fb67b98433919f8b4c3880129374e5dd964811e6b013
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 Qbot malware. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the download and execution of the secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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