Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3a54cd5c21287fe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 87a631bfabdc917819a07d6ca840dc60 SHA-1: 2f79beae708f186dfa2737df90947410c9b2d2db SHA-256: b3a54cd5c21287fec4cb39eb3737011a013b4187bf52a8551f5ef4a08d2023f5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary function of such documents is to trick users into enabling macros or exploiting vulnerabilities to download and execute a malicious payload. The detection name itself suggests a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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