Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0f7771a40225ae8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1efd92d7c820bef1474cfeeb9f1a693f SHA-1: 00a430a35375e56eba4748b7fcfcea1e9bb1ea38 SHA-256: e0f7771a40225ae89953197f9667083b5e76ba96ebb2c52fb9f171211c6f2155
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection signature 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then initiate the malicious execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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