Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e07fd50df2ecd53f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f858f0d48ef8269b9601d18acd2c54c5 SHA-1: fd4d6ad0b81abb53d59490147b579e938808304a SHA-256: e07fd50df2ecd53f6e087b265ac9e0c77f2520b1b744745779b4350c33e97b67
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to download and execute a secondary payload. While no specific URLs or scripts were extracted, the heuristic detection and file type point to a common Qbot distribution method.

Heuristics 1

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