Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5459acdc713b21b4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ccef7bc784d0e4ce6832b23b2d3794da SHA-1: 3321569305347c8fe49abc9daf4adb1a34a5df0e SHA-256: 5459acdc713b21b4fbb6d0694a812a6a3612c0968c88b8555d06c68eb75b5348
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel document identified 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 enabling macros to initiate the download and execution of a secondary malicious payload. This is a common technique for Qbot distribution.

Heuristics 1

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