Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1b4ea703d157c4c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5ec1774d3c28d2f5bf1c84500122b6ff SHA-1: 20a95f3ef3aee5378b48c962750296bb88797f1c SHA-256: e1b4ea703d157c4cccfe7b9f6d99d7469b1abc4b35326472fc11496266b2b1f9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566 Phishing T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 tricking the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. Further analysis would be required to determine the exact download and execution mechanism.

Heuristics 1

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