Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eeb75a5f59560e1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 659279729803130eb0025d78ee2314c6 SHA-1: 6d7917374c94b20839ca3c9890b14b0e44b01e9e SHA-256: 3eeb75a5f59560e17b74d9fd4359e3533cb563b8fb2017edb7096b182242197e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper, indicating its purpose is to download and execute the Qbot malware. The detection name 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests a Qbot family infection. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then initiate the malicious payload download.

Heuristics 1

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