Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8696e5ae3ad05e3c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1ff20a32ce6fe98a92b8403da6ce4a27 SHA-1: c7d2c4ce9b23785ad5521743fd9213ade17f01ae SHA-256: 8696e5ae3ad05e3c07f0efeaac46dcf68017ed17a3f99caadd324a373dcf6307
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution

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 malicious nature is further supported by its classification as a critical heuristic firing. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious Excel file and execute its payload.

Heuristics 1

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