Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c39de38630b08d9a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: be494e651b87cfe2e5dd029f3b86165e SHA-1: 659c206f0af7de9888375942eda493ac9d3ce68a SHA-256: c39de38630b08d9a329c7c616cc44fcd642f5226e967238b7306985f3734f302
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The heuristic firing indicates a dropper functionality within an Excel file, a common delivery method for Qbot. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into enabling macros to initiate the malicious execution chain.

Heuristics 1

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