Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 477f96a7e4ec708c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 05e7352c5e5f59bf577395ba54bf7a29 SHA-1: e378580dd73d82acb48d4ea5e1857539eb8b0d39 SHA-256: 477f96a7e4ec708c9c58bfeb8e5d3cadaa02ee1f9b7b2fd54868af3e054757d0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The OOXML format and the heuristic firing indicate a macro-enabled document intended for user execution to initiate the download and execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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