Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a5d50abf82e7c23…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bde0456e279cc6bde8231e5fdace72ea SHA-1: ab66d2f0c9e05c75ef428a2845ac5aea27141cfb SHA-256: 1a5d50abf82e7c230c99dd60899893803265b576ef2f343dde0542b21a215d1d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. While no specific scripts or document body were extracted, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer the malicious intent and likely family.

Heuristics 1

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