Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4e86a275d213650…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2f19f17eb905e073e501e89eeda90647 SHA-1: ef359a3c6fe3c49e1b28faa968a345c5083afab1 SHA-256: e4e86a275d213650d96ed84daf6415899ba133861ce25c03e8c4dd80387239a7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it acts as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code to download and run a further stage payload. The heuristic firing indicates a high likelihood of this attack pattern.

Heuristics 1

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