Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46bf008df40037c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1521d0165d638ece46b458cc54a579c6 SHA-1: cd2f9ac52ecbad9a309fbbdc8e183deac4d2891e SHA-256: 46bf008df40037c6187886c6132bbaffee9eee24efef7a8e3b1cad15e6bbe349
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name implies the Excel document is intended to download and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging macro execution to achieve this. The file's nature as an Excel document points towards a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Heuristics 1

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