Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a5c2670917ae129…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 2254f88ce35fc111cb811aa1108de156 SHA-1: b5846f6393c18459b6073a4002845b69994dad6f SHA-256: 2a5c2670917ae129e806a5ac0a7e346003f5239206ade998ea54143ff4812565
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 heuristic firing suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods via macro-enabled documents.

Heuristics 1

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