Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5206c51ff4818949…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4f2dec0903fb706ea8448195b1883f5e SHA-1: 53652ffb920d70ed822b36a5abee943f302ec164 SHA-256: 5206c51ff48189491b5523b772026dd536485afea63843df9ab714c3a1651b27
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The Excel document format suggests it was likely delivered via a spearphishing attachment, a common initial access vector for Qbot. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic strongly points to Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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