Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f37a988fbadb583…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 46b3c0ca02ea9dca6bffeeade18ea4c8 SHA-1: 0c1fe51438d7be69467f7a4f3b8115d44e38f42f SHA-256: 2f37a988fbadb5836e86e5b4da66c71cc81906ffb2164fad22119be82fe28dac
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic indicates the presence of malicious code designed to download and execute a further stage. The primary attack pattern is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of this dropper.

Heuristics 1

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