Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8abf1e123cdb9ff5…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 90019c2a9dd6fdf4de3ac89e74e175ae SHA-1: 56c0359ff7e48c2c963ba0063fce2153730f8087 SHA-256: 8abf1e123cdb9ff5b11b2f0a9317d6603884c8571ff8f73680e4f8c6213182c2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 malicious Excel document. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious attachment and trigger the payload execution.

Heuristics 1

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