Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae5218863556236…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e554ba8a14666d485c2c612690d2cff6 SHA-1: b74dd57d24dd56697b79ed3929392e321ea7c71c SHA-256: 2ae521886355623633c85b622b15991ceba41e7304595096cf46427b6d726524
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 identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. Its primary purpose is to execute a malicious payload, likely through embedded macros or exploits within the Excel document, to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 1

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