Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37563432f88df775…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2e773b014f92bd876503bc53833415e9 SHA-1: 159fb5196495adad853afde5606832688dc27fa5 SHA-256: 37563432f88df7755c54d024a6fb5227cc6e8d4c888974169fbc01e78b1e9639
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel macro-enabled document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, followed by the execution of a dropper mechanism to download and run a secondary payload. The heuristic firing directly points to its function as a dropper.

Heuristics 1

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