Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef701e9482e78ddb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e5174b5bcc95a00e04a39383f9722893 SHA-1: 28b20c549e7b5e39877cca145fa568bedd4f6d16 SHA-256: ef701e9482e78ddbf450a29aa07a9797f614aacf15fc9ac885542e9129654058
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document. The presence of this specific ClamAV signature provides high confidence in the attack pattern and family attribution.

Heuristics 1

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