Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45305478367234dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f57a440b33eb7b1e5ad5dc84b6e9e244 SHA-1: ddb76034775d41c1dae86f0cd74ea4aeefdb2c59 SHA-256: 45305478367234dc15650987b2ce3184d9cf211d99c3c4f8c2d7a47eeef3b270
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The heuristic indicates a dropper functionality, likely involving the execution of malicious macros to download and run 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