Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36f3f7f78a94a819…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: adf1528297628ff64dc19496ee7174f0 SHA-1: 4ddd0a14037ee797693fb2d63038b3e1f6110009 SHA-256: 36f3f7f78a94a8193a9f3175cd7016346a74a079d1e7762420efc91d5a1986bc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing from ClamAV directly identifies the file as a Qbot dropper. This indicates the Excel file's primary purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, likely Qbot malware. The file type and heuristic strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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