Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5236e43a9bf5f5bc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ae3a0ccc375543afcfc2ede00b4d7cc5 SHA-1: e39799a929c77e683167699a6a45f27dd1bb1663 SHA-256: 5236e43a9bf5f5bc9e317c9adfff5d38402c3fe7a63883af0f8677fba83a1dcc
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a 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