Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af21b4a75a052e97…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b3908bf6ac85e247358e3f64839c236e SHA-1: 0432bcc1c9d6bf7aadbb08cf9abc9368bddbb01e SHA-256: af21b4a75a052e97a866ce95c46fe7f5353fca70aa10ff61acc34ac91be16b93
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

Heuristics 1

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