Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7342453f806dc68…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1cf2b4e2e8e05bf781d545cfd818ee48 SHA-1: 7a975ec9bc6f02306f0a111ddefc68adb4772ec8 SHA-256: e7342453f806dc68dd33aae3be295715fd7709cb2bed7d9096bbaf55ad818c77
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 the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided for analysis, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer its malicious intent and delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 1

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