Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e97cc8741bf0c2de…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f044bbe2e108eb09e38cd7617649afe3 SHA-1: 5806f5662e43fee4d23dc1f2e9d253aa4a90700f SHA-256: e97cc8741bf0c2de9df615ea3a914829190e3b4dc363b108f0f2aa59d5c7a793
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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 is a Qbot variant. The detection name implies it functions as a dropper, likely relying on macro execution to download and execute a secondary payload. The document's purpose is to trick the user into enabling macros, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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