Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 531ea5852909009f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 828019b53831dd50ede8a72ba5362cdf SHA-1: 67754a143978ff89308417fea1992037bb87b78e SHA-256: 531ea5852909009f31434862877e102e14db9f3e3a5cbb070c46b244a2d11dab
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its function as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into opening a malicious Excel file that then executes a secondary payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided for analysis, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer the malicious intent and family.

Heuristics 1

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