Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9057ab4c458acecb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0c7dcf957d202de7d68be256dab80465 SHA-1: f4a53256244340bc6350611d3bd7ba0aa8d4a143 SHA-256: 9057ab4c458acecb1f1597aeb0fa36475ef7169d3d02deb7e0d58a9d397ed977
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. The detection implies the Excel file contains malicious macros or embedded objects designed to download and execute further stages of the malware. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious document to initiate the infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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