Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 416fe9739a41155b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0613aa5ac3576031a8865602e29cbe17 SHA-1: 3cd48cfdbf90ac682c186f896673152ebe48fda4 SHA-256: 416fe9739a41155b8b0a11e65a3c7fbf8885167179fdafb247cdfcb7c77c9645
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

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 primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, which then executes embedded malicious code. This code is responsible for downloading and running the final Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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