Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb3141d3aca13856…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b2ac245e47cb3b459e2e36c990f742d SHA-1: 8fd819c3a3328254aea86ab6aab1b45b72b9dff4 SHA-256: bb3141d3aca13856e5dd6fa274268e74f34453d65590f8b0f5e1bbf4b18c82c5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot downloader. The document's metadata shows it was created in 2006, which is unusual for modern Qbot campaigns but does not preclude its use as a loader.

Heuristics 1

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