Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9a5ab936b49647…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8ba23dd512bd18aac935176c9796809d SHA-1: 8701dd0e4e592edaca127e23f63d3470bfb63907 SHA-256: 4e9a5ab936b49647f44746ab526b523e2a6470aa674aa86b1c8b85613c111404
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 detection name suggests it exploits macro execution within an Excel document to download and run a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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