Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b76b6c574d9b5eb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 278f72c2795978730829bedab21f9e4d SHA-1: 5c114f501457f634537dbf48e668061c9efd4ed3 SHA-256: 3b76b6c574d9b5eb458ba57ff893b84835f8610f9e3b2e3f9fd1dacd59ba402d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely exploiting user interaction with the spreadsheet to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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