Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c5234d922ad019a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3af00bc14da890af33c0deccdd0db1d9 SHA-1: 2d07eda35f211a9fbc5f8f71c83685993b562b3a SHA-256: 3c5234d922ad019a3ebcadbc3c52501f6162525face00c1f8554a5a067b28626
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 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. Although no VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic detection itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent to deliver a secondary payload. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious attachment, which then executes the embedded malware.

Heuristics 1

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