Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225e854fe0ce92fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c9d5266c8f3dcb26ac681d6e1330e68d SHA-1: 44407c85c9d0d79ddd91fd2f9cc1b4e439372007 SHA-256: 225e854fe0ce92fbf193006b065569f587a9b7c6826754a21f6400b11f42c1fa
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 identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses embedded VBA to initiate the malicious execution chain. This pattern is consistent with spearphishing attachments used to deliver Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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