Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 852e43c4e973d5c2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 96b4d52bf0dcd46d591d96857e5c7327 SHA-1: 7e30888e078fb5c3ca4e2478f26c433bc8cfee16 SHA-256: 852e43c4e973d5c23362fbcd73caa23dacc206f0be9280d0b0b7e135fa081217
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 suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes a payload to download and run further malware. The detection name itself indicates a dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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