Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51511ce842d0a075…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 23f8a5842903263ba11004fbddb05871 SHA-1: 5f49dc75be345bad19d0528e6f82a6d57cfd5153 SHA-256: 51511ce842d0a075627f0cb6a3ae41a13ad740aaa31e4e58f79685924b3087a8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution

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 primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious Excel file. Upon opening, it would execute its payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior of downloading and running further malicious components.

Heuristics 1

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