Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38cbe3268e6cf65d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 735e765b9555ec88c09518cd8b320b8f SHA-1: aafabf8fe3d5963652f508a03dccb1d659c2c599 SHA-256: 38cbe3268e6cf65d6adf3f28009f70f6e6f76eaf32689877abb5f2bf6680074b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer the malicious intent and family.

Heuristics 1

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