Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cedbe49604a2221…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7c24319044f07b1056e9f2e4baf46051 SHA-1: 4748f13fbdbcdbf5f73ff8a681ca84d0e898012b SHA-256: 4cedbe49604a22214ea730589335e429d012aee818102a079bce4da465f62b1a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel document 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 code via macros to download and run a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros.

Heuristics 1

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