Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4938720e55efd9ea…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 737ad99077e308f2d830287b3b840de4 SHA-1: 8abe1551c25f3d8b3dcfa1fe3798d98584d36fac SHA-256: 4938720e55efd9eaaa61b4fbc5dedab854e948ffe0404da5f00ca2c6b8c8f371
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

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 heuristic firing suggests the Excel document contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot distribution.

Heuristics 1

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