Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6b950ce51ecacd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6a61fd2f2b9afdbea259cb98b6e3138c SHA-1: 74e03b14c6072439d4b817e7dfbca17c480d6370 SHA-256: fa6b950ce51ecacd8792bed2fb6abe03d7f9149e170a559b98e9bc07bd3d17f9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its function as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into executing malicious content within the Excel file, which then downloads and runs 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