Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1292a975dd81472…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cd2546a8d93b9c8f48ee1b67f11bccd5 SHA-1: 82a078696811a5b976c7b1362696fe073eb68100 SHA-256: e1292a975dd8147201565f976f98f981199db80574b0d95def36bc3684a68759
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality, aiming to download and run further malicious components.

Heuristics 1

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