Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c9fbc722df56604…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 13223ca3f5f4a45d4a1f685279be064a SHA-1: 2f00ed3065af873d9489722bf22b75fa61672bd3 SHA-256: 3c9fbc722df566040658bfd6daf0a0ed5f5d291a26ce5de73d37a650c3397dd8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel macro-enabled document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the document and enable macros, which then execute to download and run a subsequent malicious payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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