Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c9e8ce02b3744ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: efd23e6e089715ee0fd76dded11b2f11 SHA-1: 6ee82754bd3b8c52636ccea153612f03954754ed SHA-256: 3c9e8ce02b3744ad3b4424dd5181fb65a8d99eb428b536d398dac120d051e9e8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop and execute a malicious payload. The detection name implies a dropper functionality, which is consistent with the typical behavior of Qbot malware. Further analysis would be needed to confirm the specific execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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