Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd7005e746d99df2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b17c5dbc323945e8029cc33ad8e0f70 SHA-1: 672562eaca214377e458404e6978597517d63480 SHA-256: fd7005e746d99df29d7eba79bfcc3dcbc461ae2dc174294d975baadcbd1db92a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

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 deliver and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution within the Excel document to achieve this. The detection name itself suggests a Qbot variant, and the dropper functionality 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