Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e1d2cff60edb186…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e55c240960ab5f6a0a4013782e6a065c SHA-1: f5a66ee57c8eceaedba9ff77fc7d95aafe8dd1f1 SHA-256: 4e1d2cff60edb1862225ef543e439253f68dec37adfb9d72b9334cf1150f71ce
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 malicious nature is confirmed by its verdict and risk score. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to trigger the execution of a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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