Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37d07bc7b164e9d2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6d1a55b988b0a7c70c0c8c2805e5f589 SHA-1: 9cd50ff2a80fc33652a4eaa2e0b427c77350f9cc SHA-256: 37d07bc7b164e9d22c7250f1fffeb117e96ab4e162226e24f30d04376c6d1256
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet 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 to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and install the Qbot payload. This aligns with common spearphishing attachment tactics.

Heuristics 1

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