Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eead523677e28d61…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6c7762fc43c4b753c618741874037f91 SHA-1: 419afd522ea08e6b0b1d8ef97856a70b2b557331 SHA-256: eead523677e28d61ec0f686044f9c61ad8d1afa1004291499c319d672fc0b68a
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 VBA code within the Excel file, which is a common delivery mechanism for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the download and execution of the malware.

Heuristics 1

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