Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 971590bdd24b0186…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 646977017c0b3a8c622c54728b5af480 SHA-1: 5f42e303e34e14200c0fa221d67cd1015caca234 SHA-256: 971590bdd24b0186951dfb7aaaf0e1c5bf547eb99a4ab19088f4fadd8e4fc047
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection suggests the Excel file is designed to execute malicious code, likely through macro execution, to download and install the Qbot malware. No further IOCs were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 1

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