Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89d08b236c352bcc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9e0785ab04048a6825ff56aa8811b2fb SHA-1: cb8fef4a509c2e20e27fcce82826878e7210efed SHA-256: 89d08b236c352bcc50a6fd62971e75d53853ba4190b453c6b935b3ae7f422e82
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0'. This heuristic strongly suggests the document is a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The file's metadata indicates it was authored by Microsoft Excel, and its size is typical for macro-enabled documents used for initial payload delivery.

Heuristics 1

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