Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d20a4cbb563140d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3fa564d2c791b0c562869a472bfaf40c SHA-1: 4fabab8cf191845a6de63cf85db2f2d117712377 SHA-256: 1d20a4cbb563140d4334e0e0ef3dc71ce8082c264ac2773c025e3078c5b5c46a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 the embedded payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the ClamAV detection is highly specific.

Heuristics 1

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