Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8749f552f74420fd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: edba6243864508863f521c2876a85f92 SHA-1: 628e9aafd71a73c519b7aaea19cdc003abd4b124 SHA-256: 8749f552f74420fd5339544272a4b7656bf7056f5f6fcdf140d5acbf1da4f69b
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 confirmed by the verdict and the specific ClamAV detection name. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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