Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22b5bb1819076b1c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: eb1f46394c7991f0283b7988e2c4fea1 SHA-1: 07b3211c9069057a7ff917cc989d1cc2ba5ee05f SHA-256: 22b5bb1819076b1ce0c879baeaa295f7660faf047cea6474eae93e0fd234d7de
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 detection name suggests it exploits macro-enabled Excel documents to download and execute a secondary stage payload. The file's structure and the specific ClamAV signature point towards a common Qbot distribution method.

Heuristics 1

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