Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b88ab30039afc276…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cd51ed902bd61cf06a236ffd8e41adcf SHA-1: 7f7b4b786451ddd8379eda3320ec726d1b21f7c8 SHA-256: b88ab30039afc2760455a4a3138c46007e255a4e14e480231fc2411346c03407
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The heuristic firing indicates the presence of malicious macro code within the Excel file, which is a common delivery mechanism for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to execute the embedded malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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