Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d57cbdbc136f992f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1b7514d0a0c7e438fd146406913e1468 SHA-1: d0439ed63f9d689b94598c5f9eb9ebb0e3b29898 SHA-256: d57cbdbc136f992f3816c014af86ee3fad856ce5202ada30ba89d2b838c21fd3
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 indicating its nature as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary function of such files is to execute malicious code, often by downloading and running a second-stage payload from a remote source. The heuristic firing directly points to a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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