Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85c3a2e654e8868b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 28ed4c21732b74f7d77fade361d48b68 SHA-1: 3784267538fbfd979119d1ae83d9e46539f0467a SHA-256: 85c3a2e654e8868b3f9fd396bda96a5441e6fda86f9976fa1e0f55ae0df1090e
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

The critical heuristic firing from ClamAV directly identifies the file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting a Qbot family dropper. The file type is an Excel spreadsheet, a common delivery mechanism for macro-based malware. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the malicious payload execution.

Heuristics 1

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