Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3273bd654c20e583…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 36d53ce4b68234e5a4311408507680c2 SHA-1: 3efd4f2ede1969e90c44167db0a81eb5fa767bc9 SHA-256: 3273bd654c20e583d81ff4d1361108919191baf9069bab7d27ee98105325ce0e
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 primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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