Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 364c1de79b121570…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d9a70c65793d569de58c966c026057d9 SHA-1: 2492df3c1529915ca3882d9aab848cb6e9634251 SHA-256: 364c1de79b121570a08af9108a58d3bdf49b8ccbb2e356ee399649abc4539c00
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 malicious payload. The heuristic firing directly attributes the file to the Qbot family and suggests a dropper functionality. This points to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern where the user is tricked into opening the malicious Excel file.

Heuristics 1

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