Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48bfe8386f581961…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 02290387f83326f2325e17f423fffcc5 SHA-1: df504a5736ed31cd86bba283fb0f41705bf76afe SHA-256: 48bfe8386f5819618149a953990f3a0cd4fdb41a62c197eede6fd301ac9bc08d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The Excel format suggests it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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