Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b78989e29a2224c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f3bf90bc45bca6463a432ac3cf37953f SHA-1: e9577fece6d068a3709f018f44838b89636c9b90 SHA-256: 9b78989e29a2224c5c72fa361cb89a3202c8b2869f5d444cccec0fe6bb10e5dd
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant designed to drop further malicious content. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, leading to the execution of a malicious payload. The file type and heuristic firing directly support this conclusion.

Heuristics 1

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