Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac14cef7eaf84779…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c12fae68f3be7d4ce7dd7dea91430b6a SHA-1: 265de03ae4ce27e27bcf30a6fc2dbfd6487bdf47 SHA-256: ac14cef7eaf84779644324467806cf51255ffc7615c02d481e865786c79459de
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 Malicious Link

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging macro execution within the Excel file to download and run a secondary malicious payload. This is a common technique used by Qbot for initial infection.

Heuristics 1

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