Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b16b897663b401b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8bbae35cbfd74ac3f32230a5881b271a SHA-1: 1d1c0b76c370313f504a3781c5b400235dfc935a SHA-256: 4b16b897663b401ba7cf8e2836063d69def81f5ce8316d416640c280c5d45431
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 heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious code intended to download and execute a secondary 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