Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38f78d9488d0b565…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d6e4f58d8e9bb3bf3f73d59e98f5246b SHA-1: d38f17e929220130382b433b87f3931b3768d667 SHA-256: 38f78d9488d0b565596ff2fa612918d226976be11fb78b164b84eb916ce28eea
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The primary function is likely to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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