Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2190a73979371dbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 81f2eac9fb2a7584ddc5e14ba6eb2726 SHA-1: 8278b0a76b496d66c90e2893ba1197f790ed1f7a SHA-256: 2190a73979371dbedc49622c0b3db8f41a3a128aa4667e057d6068bd1cde07e9
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 into opening the malicious document, which then executes embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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