Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 475a1e9c1b15d896…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5505174d3d0d1fbfdb483d5c1c4f5843 SHA-1: 246af38d98c46117fe3b6ed1e4eb55498f80bca0 SHA-256: 475a1e9c1b15d896a30ec0eed1ea2818a156335013a7667a589be0671e8f56ca
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name suggests the file is designed to deliver a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot infections. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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