Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b091826fd3e9e70b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 01af2df1b54f489a081a19dfa54cc197 SHA-1: 6697d43df63f2eff931ace0701346d6f1a189e39 SHA-256: b091826fd3e9e70b5a60a8d08b73a5fa59617d745b60c4a9db2749ed39823070
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes a secondary payload. Further analysis of the payload's behavior would be required to detail specific execution techniques.

Heuristics 1

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