Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53c6628f2072502c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 62a45bc588e807dde420cc93dbdf23da SHA-1: bd27da375554864e092e7f6fa20d53edfddd7c4d SHA-256: 53c6628f2072502c2571e91756f915d24659bb96a2505099f2cd73a42f4b71df
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 a 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