Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3993851a47a167c9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b0d05601747e51427fd4f2325bd88f51 SHA-1: 8d0a993d7a1c7df0bbae1046118529014d27dade SHA-256: 3993851a47a167c915ca0d04a4648242ef7616b589e45121acdd8320be446892
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick the user into enabling macros, which then execute the malicious payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of a Qbot variant.

Heuristics 1

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