Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d56945b31a9019a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5b2449a6473593cdf6244ec01653cddc SHA-1: 8a6aa96d4517e7034ad92ab24fcd03b26dfe384b SHA-256: 4d56945b31a9019ac30712e24265d63ea3698912fad08891e68ad2f465782eaa
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

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 pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a Microsoft Excel document, likely through spearphishing. The heuristic firing suggests the presence of malicious VBA or macro code designed to execute the secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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