Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42e22ba2fc655c0e…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b326520e7b1a670571eb182aa5ed722 SHA-1: 36a5c09afd26848976bae0c5d63b8e28da3151cc SHA-256: 42e22ba2fc655c0e0dc043e8a86e071b87c1e78111eb3a1b3bb2872eb6cb9fb9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its function as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The heuristic firing is critical and directly points to a known malware family.

Heuristics 1

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