Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e552bf4ca16f1cc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 53d2b8ac6550ea7f7c2e1802d35d0742 SHA-1: 07c928ed3617b5a392f3bb42ad6587a0ff59bf1a SHA-256: 4e552bf4ca16f1ccc26c409bf197c5199b89ac929050e1fa430315b7e39373c5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as a Qbot dropper, a known banking trojan. Qbot often uses macro-enabled documents to initiate infection chains, leading to the download of further malicious components. The detection strongly suggests this file's purpose is to facilitate the initial stage of a Qbot infection.

Heuristics 1

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