Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2966eb58385a89…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dfeddbaf6600acae2596136221aa780b SHA-1: 958509bf7dcf188a17e8814993fae9966277d3cd SHA-256: 8c2966eb58385a893fb144066b418df4603545a81cbc058cf2cb2dc339e83bc7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. As an Excel file, it was likely delivered via spearphishing, intended to trick the user into enabling macros or exploiting a vulnerability to download and execute 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