Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88cedc3d85493823…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3d59cda7bb9dd12f0513671d18eb004e SHA-1: d5a3165b7d90e22893509515942d1a4aa163d0d3 SHA-256: 88cedc3d854938238c3535af1a41105e40140c732eb78d45419bcb293dc73ce0
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a malicious payload. The detection name implies it is a dropper document, likely relying on macro execution to achieve its objective. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the user being tricked into enabling macros.

Heuristics 1

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