Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 967972be25952c83…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: b58d72a69634a9e6ee11e09833ce7729 SHA-1: 3bac3eabc1f7aa67d5d0f86d3de6aa4895f52014 SHA-256: 967972be25952c8360cb71e32f174ff87ff4272a0df50c50e93bcb09b77b334a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user to open the malicious attachment, which then likely executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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