Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edd375da68b5febc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 68544aa1c78d2a38dcd12baadc8cf9d7 SHA-1: 1b35801b82ec44ed7fc49c13a8cbf139f1845b9d SHA-256: edd375da68b5febcb6e4f42b2e13cc18a331cf667af50d3b4ba4852c8c9d301f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The heuristic firing indicates the presence of malicious macro functionality within the Excel file, which is a common delivery method for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the download and execution of further malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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