Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f56664d9c22cb53…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 57771f2b40db67a4abc68c1485d4d2c7 SHA-1: 0bd2a4b106b1e35056f9295b4eb31a7e095c8685 SHA-256: 2f56664d9c22cb5313a8b3235ae5a591c5d1900355988970c015dc50ecc673d5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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 detection name suggests the file is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot distribution. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the spreadsheet serving as the initial lure.

Heuristics 1

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