Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 573fde125c7ff250…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 36c3e44568bc38f5f2b4f316affb5621 SHA-1: 7db712dffc732f3b4fdfc512f220f6618827ef84 SHA-256: 573fde125c7ff2503d4dda962bb01b391c8089caeef5f4f21d99c8f21f83dc89
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566 Phishing T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a downloader. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into opening the malicious Excel file, leading to the execution of the embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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