Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e081c13f1a845e03…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1f456b22121be3bb29ba4328ce3a44be SHA-1: 581508a9c8364553b7ca895966664aed1118218e SHA-256: e081c13f1a845e03b7663bfd671f82758bb7461bbb4d359a6d0a7e0f9ef66bb5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of file typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code to download and run the Qbot malware. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to user execution of the malicious file.

Heuristics 1

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