Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ace8443ca2e2dd0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 26b516c56116a2a5c36ef1d72bc9fa51 SHA-1: 127ebc6370d1971def459012ecb5548876b80475 SHA-256: 4ace8443ca2e2dd087866789312386e9c8f79a2a2268ea41fddec235b2e4a5d3
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 detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution within an Excel spreadsheet to download and run a malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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