Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e0691456cc3708e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 540cbb1524c8eeed3e4c5128b1250c66 SHA-1: 8c75a2dd94e34b62e39655c7944bd4715a1e64b3 SHA-256: 7e0691456cc3708ea5eac63493a8f0d67dbaf6429e44637a131e01adb51228bb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family infection. As an Excel macro-enabled document, it likely employs social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which would then execute malicious code to download and run a further stage. The primary attack vector is spearphishing attachment, with macro execution being the initial execution method.

Heuristics 1

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