Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b00c8574c2e6088…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c3e27a554e3f04c5ae4cef8b0a2b21d4 SHA-1: 24e5d983ad0e6516b04929882d88a46e4df62c8d SHA-256: 7b00c8574c2e60881672d77ec7ec830d695bee3f202793f64fa4e0d80fee0fdb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to convince the user to enable macros. Once enabled, the macro would execute, likely downloading and running a malicious payload, consistent with 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