Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ebc737ae597476a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7060ee13d724d5ad53f53fd813f9e50e SHA-1: 2670335245e8572836ae77fd11fd5fef1fa5b1f0 SHA-256: 4ebc737ae597476ad1abf40ef60e2e60edd52909e5075f9318cc0dffdebff0e2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The primary function appears to be the initial infection vector for a Qbot campaign. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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