Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31211b98d57659e9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4329cc82cde645ff4dbbe7b06758aa1e SHA-1: b42031dcbc84a62ee6e3543959af73e20d3b12b8 SHA-256: 31211b98d57659e9549aa88513ea2428930c9f80a5fcb8836a4698c68713ed1b
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 it uses VBA macros to download and execute a secondary payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot, often initiated via spearphishing attachments.

Heuristics 1

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