Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50ca2cd9f1aa13d1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 77a2a4df320719eea212d617349b416f SHA-1: 5338413309b0a819b921efd00dc83ffa6706b57e SHA-256: 50ca2cd9f1aa13d1b40b9dca162d244cdc373349e849ae158a02931a5f85dbd8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into opening a malicious Excel file which then executes a secondary payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly indicative of Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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