Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88b040804d63ad9d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fcde5a6cd21bfacfe333eb1119e664ca SHA-1: 170851d1bb8aea7147d1fa5e9bd56b1d1bbde57b SHA-256: 88b040804d63ad9d3ef6dbd0fb5053c6c07aa8369267db66d04b814cef8d78e0
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The specific detection name suggests a Qbot variant designed for malicious document delivery.

Heuristics 1

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