Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 316d9c37863c768d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4b9fe2bdd1dc6088848c0470da3fcc0d SHA-1: c2f9f337a133bbbcb17473b223c7dd9be9f49588 SHA-256: 316d9c37863c768d22386980fa12eab13bfc6f93c68eadec9d952ebe36bfa1a3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, which then executes a payload. Further analysis of embedded scripts or macros would be needed to detail the exact execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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