Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26eb66e597bcba16…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 26fb7daa5f121781cb4389ab84b8ea1f SHA-1: 97f657a0bc676a26ef4ff0c9081e07f93c534728 SHA-256: 26eb66e597bcba1653c8186981c7a52b1a9c7e987ea6b4ff50bef1003a0467e3
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 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 embedded malicious code to download and run a secondary 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