Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b234a1bf27f3ef9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d463aa9d45f1ca436f875a31e5aa2940 SHA-1: 3041ba988a14ad50c9b0489a489689039693d863 SHA-256: 3b234a1bf27f3ef9840fb23dd64c40efc97b0c05151e38345d30894a91ea2f30
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The detection name suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The file's metadata and the critical heuristic firing confirm its malicious nature as a Qbot distribution vector.

Heuristics 1

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