Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24a59a3959e180c1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 293412c5bdfdb1705844d56832423da9 SHA-1: f45bf7e66ba47d095eafec0f0b9f6eb410a2aa7b SHA-256: 24a59a3959e180c1534b3e7725f23547d6b42ba1c40c5c9aa6021e8fde316c59
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 primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. While no specific script content or URLs were extracted, the heuristic detection is highly reliable for this family.

Heuristics 1

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