Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 456849d16f350661…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7b65b7f12bccc78c828196ca6cf30a1a SHA-1: a129df76d0ff01a08f360130c8ed31c96d0d185c SHA-256: 456849d16f350661947edaa49cef2f883f1e8fd7b90bdfa90c569b1f008d0710
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document with a critical ClamAV detection identifying it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0'. This strongly suggests it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection implies the file is designed to execute malicious code, likely through macro execution, to download and install the main Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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