Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ad8a7e0674c096e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a9e95dc593261a5a979646f9c912ea92 SHA-1: 683a1791b947abaaed971bf7eca90595de180963 SHA-256: 3ad8a7e0674c096e0af07f06dc796b59b628600cad92d9281d7f5b291217f140
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 heuristic suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with Qbot's typical distribution methods via macro-enabled documents.

Heuristics 1

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