Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe457ee7152c446…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: eae5d48b68d408f1e906fc8c9e55356e SHA-1: bc9c26f4258de2f464bdb1cae75f9767f16fe485 SHA-256: efe457ee7152c446253251ad3a980d2e2c16e4393325e0ee1ebb4c1458b68f26
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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