Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3211e68d3dbb0b6c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4afe9c95f3c44922edc7039dafe42961 SHA-1: 485c4e89ca334b01b97926ea41050d6005ed0f3b SHA-256: 3211e68d3dbb0b6c3f2fd32352b726f36894880c0db8cdaffc99294d97847e5a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document flagged by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it's a Qbot variant designed to drop additional malware. The detection name implies macro-based execution, which is a common delivery method for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the malicious download and execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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