Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b57304dbe5f960…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 386ac3812b011567bcce4c1d1dc2bdfd SHA-1: 87a2ee778581a6d21e7447b917af4c6ad6efdca7 SHA-256: 22b57304dbe5f9603fbe3b1df2d5e3840003aaf0440285896b4c7859f068ebb7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its nature as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary function of such documents is to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute a malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests 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