Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 208fb570ffa11816…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2aeea79c54f56ec4753ff97365ebeac2 SHA-1: e42b1a898cd503c7f0c4fc5e112c32267d22c08f SHA-256: 208fb570ffa118166d2bf2e9c4ab777e35a69943ec7eb7b0f7f56c8ba26383f2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is 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 into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. This payload is likely responsible for further infection and data exfiltration.

Heuristics 1

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