Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8680561b8d042064…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8732dda5ee1f9f64ecbe8bc1642a5d67 SHA-1: 741090991b7efc6039fad2c7c370578a2df44226 SHA-256: 8680561b8d042064e6b5ad9406b2367de90caf7f2da646d5c9d9df19e43a66a2
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 presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses embedded VBA to download and execute a malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot distribution.

Heuristics 1

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