Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228914c943add4fa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f43bf18fa2777fe5e1c74d8675e36a2e SHA-1: 5b11b5b5d134e7a1c79c25b5eca9f0d78d838420 SHA-256: 228914c943add4fa4eb80cd8202f945b7349c625496e6edfa12277171dc11864
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The presence of macro-related heuristics, even if not explicitly detailed here, supports the attack pattern of a malicious document leveraging VBA to initiate the infection chain. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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