Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e241ec4ee1f88c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cc36fbf0e984cb60f23784d4556399bb SHA-1: f6932b5edb2256553f415aed71789b669382d7da SHA-256: 3e241ec4ee1f88c6e3a4ee301d51819ff24f652accf3d9f7e1c20e837521334b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The primary function of such files is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, likely the Qbot banking trojan itself. The heuristic firing is critical and directly points to the malware family.

Heuristics 1

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