Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7aefdcffa9cc3d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fdf275a1f79c7f209cf5a4878456f8bf SHA-1: f23e1f625b74400259270cead8d02e130d4173a6 SHA-256: 4e7aefdcffa9cc3dd5da822ed4920a802bf7e5e452d7c0ccd1203bd145c6b4a1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes 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