Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56f9158c9a103aaa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5eaa0b0f171537be50c8be60c65fa22c SHA-1: 2ff31cd6aa5292e233050b4f111429789925a63c SHA-256: 56f9158c9a103aaaa546f97d5bf89cbb538a5c7fffbb140e357601aeb8dcc16e
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', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The critical heuristic firing suggests the presence of malicious code within the Excel document, likely intended to download and execute 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