Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff277f4c02becbe…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 16a9b1b3a9a7e76a9d822f283eae64d2 SHA-1: 7eaf386f49ecbcea34049d2c95f24c7372156a47 SHA-256: 3ff277f4c02becbec3107453b9db5d0dfe6463d38fec9d4727b3a4e536b713ca
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The malicious nature is further supported by its classification as a critical heuristic firing. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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