Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bdb40a0b5e6efc1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1bb8f7b70bd3753d35f55f5e66195d11 SHA-1: bf5da6c28b18847bb96f939ef8ad31b99c88c065 SHA-256: 2bdb40a0b5e6efc1d59393b8d96da123360f7495965fd90550a7452b7e9c40ad
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious Excel spreadsheet by ClamAV with a signature indicating it's a Qbot dropper. This suggests the primary function is to download and execute a secondary stage payload associated with the Qbot banking trojan. The specific ClamAV detection name provides a strong indicator of the malware family and its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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