Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4492912200cfcb0d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 568329974a430e8c3c9a5d68ed8e30ee SHA-1: 35d80ad59786580c442a1f835e95638c5dcfcda4 SHA-256: 4492912200cfcb0dc4332f940c336e49a9317a2d6e07ff7d3c1ac903422a694f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This heuristic strongly suggests the file's purpose is to act as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name implies it leverages macro-based execution within an Excel document to achieve its malicious objective.

Heuristics 1

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