Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 961b6f527cca2d19…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 71455ba2f5531a2bf7dbfa6976fe65d9 SHA-1: a01f9ae57c3d3a928a237f2b88b500a16a82746a SHA-256: 961b6f527cca2d19841e0ffd739b1d09b8dd3f9420b6d8d33c4254cacd169770
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded macros to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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

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