Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45cfd73c5a868829…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c68d6eee47965999d81cc8d76a42c302 SHA-1: c6721f60f9cdc1a05ccb2026de153e6f04f9e21f SHA-256: 45cfd73c5a868829c1c6ff2239d997add6509369b0c38078705c2b6778d965a9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious Excel document by ClamAV, specifically flagged as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0'. This strongly suggests its purpose is to act as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The document's metadata indicates it was created with an older version of Microsoft Excel, which could be relevant for exploit targeting.

Heuristics 1

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