Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3531d519a27bd32…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 924d652b3d29e427cc538e7894289f2e SHA-1: 457da62894759609710b16dc6b1c52cfe9239034 SHA-256: f3531d519a27bd321cc8f0e7d8b030963e3751f6188adddffec87b73bc3b69a9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. This type of document typically relies on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of Qbot indicators strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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