Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f37ca76418194f0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 400b21e43806aeda4d631954f31f4ee6 SHA-1: a660b023e63d907ef65e778b44008e9363fc98e7 SHA-256: 3f37ca76418194f08d169cd7f6335bbab7cb72b6aa41d8ed29416bfa8c64028c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

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 presence of this specific ClamAV signature suggests the file is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or employ social engineering tactics to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The primary function appears to be the initial infection vector for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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