Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f12934c4d946bc0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3b9c7fb297b5c4bc8acc78577d42e4d5 SHA-1: 9564abcf0ff28551682fa59db2ad30135e7480bd SHA-256: 4f12934c4d946bc0751186c154542b0650fc1d36df9d9168f22a3d6c6885fbf9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet 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 the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods via macro-enabled documents.

Heuristics 1

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