Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccd4b8197098202c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f97e81e3c15dfbad612b98db97ea2a5f SHA-1: e2b2dae1c1838be5fb437cd927bc2f831fbc2bad SHA-256: ccd4b8197098202c603c4eae5768fe1419908d7feb223db3a43e1091d158ec86
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1204 User Execution T1566 Phishing

The file was detected 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 the malicious Excel file, which then executes embedded macros to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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