Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 533290314b85468c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b8ffca0c290abc623e8a861ff471fb09 SHA-1: 7ccea9ec53da1f15d06697a35a20127e7118e967 SHA-256: 533290314b85468c71ab5ece604ca4f9c2f0c43f5b00f229d750931f2e8c1028
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 detection name suggests it uses macro-based execution within an Excel document to achieve its malicious objectives. This points to a phishing attack vector where the user is tricked into opening the malicious spreadsheet.

Heuristics 1

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