Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e38ef637050cf377…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 05b78e8c631b4b60c6bf2746aac970a1 SHA-1: 585f571ff5eae26016c4238643fc37cb2ecaf7de SHA-256: e38ef637050cf3777cb1d8a72469809ef1473cd3806ca886e11a0de7f426aad6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. This type of malware typically uses malicious Office documents to trick users into enabling macros, which then download and execute the main payload. The heuristic firing directly points to its function as a dropper for the Qbot family.

Heuristics 1

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