Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48c79d5fe6b9ed16…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6a5bd70c883d887a927ced3365ef7b89 SHA-1: 485415a45f217bbf5d765a50184d31a467850699 SHA-256: 48c79d5fe6b9ed16d54a7e587ba658371103934a49d04d0d472d0776bd97de23
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 it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash of the file is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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