Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41ad0827194a0a99…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f8afe1c9cb837c37a793635e73b9e130 SHA-1: 1650bc5c7625cb1f1b1b21f7b8c590dbd2ff80e7 SHA-256: 41ad0827194a0a99a1c8ec7c36d3ec47f10f58641c42bc5def1f49efb96a159f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. Its primary purpose is to execute a malicious payload, likely downloaded from a remote source, which is characteristic of Qbot's infection chain. The heuristics and detection name provide high confidence in this assessment.

Heuristics 1

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