Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efc5522a782ded84…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 823460b79a78c49a8b47def788b36f3e SHA-1: 90459c2add7bb40b56390657d696c94ef9bb54b1 SHA-256: efc5522a782ded84add84cc1956dbd94a9ab904b09fbded9af96a9a3b5ec8e98
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The file's nature as an Excel document further supports a delivery mechanism commonly used by Qbot. No specific download URLs or scripts were extracted, but the detection name implies a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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