Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35a368442c06721…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3fec092c61d0880f2024c37479d87c2b SHA-1: b62cce8347ff8f823506ade57ff88c0466eef5be SHA-256: a35a368442c06721936dcd6ea810ab585c46b49b9abe917131bd57dcd5d58a01
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot variant. The primary attack vector is likely social engineering to enable macros, which would then execute the dropper functionality. This dropper is expected to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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