Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2540d9f7a6a2a45f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 98c047c44860b26b8b193bb0ecabe64a SHA-1: 753d10347a205202e11fc3bc8b839d4ba32636c4 SHA-256: 2540d9f7a6a2a45f2d0bc52670a53ce24b76792bdababffbc6fffa6fce3e1583
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution within an Excel document to download and run a malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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