Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 507caa75726c190a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 964b9c4802397b16ad39733a2294b2c7 SHA-1: ed0822706b01c60224e11c11b4964c6c6e09a5bc SHA-256: 507caa75726c190a0502e0924ac343a65d8e4b5eca4af9677d58229667a97f21
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 is designed to deliver a malicious payload, likely through macro execution or other embedded exploits, which is a common Qbot distribution method. The primary IOC is the ClamAV detection signature itself, which points to the specific malware family and its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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