Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db278d226240a550…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1fed61460dc96736f8119decd755e4e6 SHA-1: 7b816cc7ead1e43351d06dba783b2539dd0d1100 SHA-256: db278d226240a5509359d28d322c75693b0ac70ade3c9b6225d99a19c9597602
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests this is a Qbot variant. The file is an Excel macro-enabled document (XLSX) which is a common delivery mechanism for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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