Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 235bfbd1cab3b27a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 49b19aa8b2f932a6a93f6b50270038a1 SHA-1: 9edab0c8b23190b56a8af5f52f7215b4a712447d SHA-256: 235bfbd1cab3b27a699966f87c76275ad6146b9f408c420f51ae29d451c8d74e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality, likely leveraging macro execution to achieve this.

Heuristics 1

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