Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e3f57a2865e7948…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 229a42251160e62cccb54cfeb1924aca SHA-1: bca2a077a3986c19c0e20864e7759cd18d692ca4 SHA-256: 4e3f57a2865e794894bd598455c6d8f5c4d614b505784c4e8888f75c7ead8324
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. While no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious content intended to execute a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leveraging the document's macro capabilities to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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