Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33ddf24a582d8345…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d27ca260dceaae7602fa02443ca3cccc SHA-1: 60216b08ca1e62920bd8dd12bc4e1e8f7ef56693 SHA-256: 33ddf24a582d83454b35e0ed31c280c9f640efbb4072979b02bb0c6a4a939702
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

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, which then likely executes a secondary payload. The heuristic firing directly points to its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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