Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c31c619a6664ac…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8d5a4d1dc6bb4d279e1883f18e110248 SHA-1: e4af45212ae8275457faf7e51d770346b9c04569 SHA-256: 22c31c619a6664aca9156a05d8ea5a99effdc912d39ea52c865a40f48a1308c1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

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 detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload. The file's structure and detection name 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