Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cf6eea8d0f31a1b…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d82b977a79199f340ec2da8eac5b8ad5 SHA-1: feca1097cb1876f810b0eddfd6d94f95f7ffab48 SHA-256: 4cf6eea8d0f31a1b420e7bc4c039f04a31fd39d2138c84efdd712fb84bcfd25d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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 vector is likely a phishing email with this malicious Excel file as an attachment, aiming to trick the user into enabling macros to execute the payload. The dropper's purpose is to download and run a second-stage malicious binary.

Heuristics 1

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