Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a2d0f4bb2e65f4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fd0b0d7c256a78e6b3c27dd1fa8b9dba SHA-1: 50388f63383e831da238d28a09b40baeacbf3f91 SHA-256: 48a2d0f4bb2e65f449e9bfe4b162f7de72ec22fb203ac9efafc1e5cb00b0ba6b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The malicious nature is further supported by its classification as a critical heuristic firing. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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