Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b6fdaca123436da…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 75d8b2207a1ff129e84df70112fcc144 SHA-1: 7bd0aeb6c2c054a9e1b831a5ded98a142eabc1d4 SHA-256: 3b6fdaca123436dab35cde51a3a5b5e496287b17887cfe72a8094140d8c53499
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its use as a dropper for Qbot malware. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute the malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests a Qbot family association and a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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