Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45df472c4b5667d0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7d7cf6c98ca6d5b69a178b9d99a11fdd SHA-1: 06d2d4a8408c54abac446d463dc696aed23458f2 SHA-256: 45df472c4b5667d03091681e8adff055dbbb257d9131d592794b7978b5b3eb87
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious attachment. The file's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 1

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