Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d7bf8436e83ef64…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 93553eb926d3afd9f550fc2fb4d61904 SHA-1: 991918ef76c7d78315eb06efa1db550da973d9a4 SHA-256: 8d7bf8436e83ef64a03038b4fcdb8c36db15b23b235512f13818576a4fdb1ab7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 confirmed by the verdict and risk score. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes the Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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