Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2446d2499ff4b4db…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ad6b937bcfd45280ad9d5f2256ba5b01 SHA-1: 942827ef41fdabb9b4833ea79e246d59c67f519d SHA-256: 2446d2499ff4b4dbfc0b1af13a901d1995a303590e559a6f17d130c1112b6016
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 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 is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, leveraging macro execution to achieve this. 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