Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a57e15e516f827e8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7245113cd79d943ea10be6d0442d6e2b SHA-1: 8179db56649ce8305abfb54805aa3b3c68a3615a SHA-256: a57e15e516f827e85039b0c4e8c50e76a4bc443901cbb70b79c811a87220c631
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566 Phishing

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, which is characteristic of Qbot's initial infection vector. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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