Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f166c4c5dcd41257…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a941dc95682549fbecc7e5f09c07c93d SHA-1: befd3b23ca9aeb7a80feaa2790642009b642c49d SHA-256: f166c4c5dcd4125729fadc34a6b34e04893307b1c8a9d2ca16b42b33947df6c1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

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 primary function appears to be the initial infection vector, leveraging the document format to achieve execution.

Heuristics 1

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