Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37f327098887491e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4aaa73d3c155479f6515eadd80379824 SHA-1: eee67bdec834c8ed411b06aec7a0428f017600eb SHA-256: 37f327098887491ece7650c5330530056ca7b1f25d794206cda7bdca127e9a45
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting Qbot family involvement. The heuristic indicates it functions as a dropper, likely utilizing VBA macros to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is social engineering to enable macros, leading to the execution of the dropped malware.

Heuristics 1

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