Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae014f3e4a73ee54…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b27c4bee1bb7655a0daf3ee016e298cc SHA-1: 3d5b78ad6541e3b04e13aaa59aef174679a52467 SHA-256: ae014f3e4a73ee5421f0a82644e3127df4b8a14b8e0fa4f22d484309ccdc45bc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The detection name implies a dropper functionality, which is a common initial access technique for Qbot. Further analysis would be needed to confirm the specific execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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