Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d48ba46885ea281…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6b29b3bcde495cfd4bd670ed8d4a616a SHA-1: 6029a2f5e6b486460e6abe5f8892165d7a73270e SHA-256: 4d48ba46885ea281920a8bd91e15d0441aa6e1176e425c740f3049c6360c4d77
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 detection name suggests it is an Office document (Xls) that drops malware and is associated with Qbot. This points to a spearphishing attachment attack vector, where the Excel file likely contains malicious macros to download and execute the secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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