Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e291816d3d161e2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a2429a46e55b8b08a364b541c5e11fb7 SHA-1: 8fc7c30a3f6c7d7561f05a75b2f75b0b1f863384 SHA-256: 3e291816d3d161e28f4720c344453c89443c1c3453dc6b282726beb029964f32
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. Its primary purpose is to deliver and execute a malicious payload, likely through exploiting macro execution in Microsoft Excel. The detection name itself suggests 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