Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9b87472de5cd5a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4b31bfd5dbe58759b8544bc8d7fcb501 SHA-1: 8393d65d2f8f4e18a3dcdba88284092acce263b3 SHA-256: ce9b87472de5cd5a6c7ce7ac2d94f0a43688e3e55a275cba589d9ce99045c68b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link 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 drop a malicious payload. The detection name implies a macro-enabled document used for initial infection. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros, which then likely executes malicious code to download further stages.

Heuristics 1

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