Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a37cb00c85b227dc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a7351f2816b4b5d0ae5b1874d6e90984 SHA-1: 8566cdc3c884e18bd2c808e8a740c744a570fd9f SHA-256: a37cb00c85b227dc260ea68979151410efd4bc1b409e455d0a0adeacb6b39b2d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating a Qbot family dropper. The file's purpose is to deliver and execute a secondary Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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