Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22916632c8694c7e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5acc3dacc736f57fd8c82f20b95a28de SHA-1: 81fcc3ea662c65ccf7fb8252ad860799e47a7381 SHA-256: 22916632c8694c7e9c28f25b3ee95b0bcc4a9a727b41ff628382bcf08334a730
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 download and execute a secondary payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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