Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 509fab912e319063…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f1d365c4a8196e8d51a9266fd2f160fa SHA-1: 7f11848b718e85d8b3879bd61064b82f91c810ba SHA-256: 509fab912e31906342a1eb7cec67e92931f8ce2aba401915a019702e95c284e5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

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 Excel format suggests it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run the secondary 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