Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5457e4faed25595…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3dfdf8606f0cbe751bbf48a2c1ef70d8 SHA-1: 569de79676518c1af4cf20b582080350e6a7b0b5 SHA-256: b5457e4faed255957f58aa6d549170aead7131cdd7dc2e91a12ce768015617c3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

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 of this file is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, which is a common tactic for Qbot. 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