Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 836a145b66b6e05d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 79853bfdba7f20ee189ed59997e5859f SHA-1: 3f19a145ece736e131a110bc76d6fb87c676aabe SHA-256: 836a145b66b6e05d050eaad58ce47fddbbe4bedfd629e566773a08e99a5b7eaf
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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 leverages macro-based execution within an Excel spreadsheet 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