Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57da4472b8d15de9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 627047d1ee29679dd401645496215edf SHA-1: c60f857f5a61c422d65c168795001ef7922efca1 SHA-256: 57da4472b8d15de955de4e15b08e5729bb9a02d2c51c674d66c8caf84a74caf1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. As an Excel file, it likely uses macros or other embedded content to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical distribution methods. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious attachment to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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