Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 587867f1e272e73f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 438e6ef6f37929c9a7913d47dcf8f805 SHA-1: 8ee641d7f58d7eedea8f549c2ee99955f87c0f0f SHA-256: 587867f1e272e73f23ef388e6db40219082495b0e3cbe63bc838ccde1a26fdbd
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 presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely exploits macro execution to download and run a secondary payload, a common Qbot delivery method.

Heuristics 1

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