Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38478aeb36054f13…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5baf6afda11c70a3d374b9ab06f6636e SHA-1: eae497806568bfbdd64fac8e44fba9c8ff5efb9a SHA-256: 38478aeb36054f13bf4e264fe9278ae6f8287a877930cb398b7ea73c8b9cc243
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The file type is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for macro-enabled malware. The absence of document body text or scripts means the primary evidence is the heuristic detection.

Heuristics 1

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