Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34972971fbeb689d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2cdcd6d4a342b6491a79ae41d00477d2 SHA-1: 51ccf6328bbd69715ab2fd1b792981127259a98a SHA-256: 34972971fbeb689dd97c4dfa0a37366087f3ba61b6b036dec6b7a49d573fb891
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The detection signature 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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