Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9be91e98fd2be790…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fef6261fdbd024fcb889f9a362cbc23a SHA-1: dc9f6a14cbfc044877aa06af6534e2fb9a3eb5f6 SHA-256: 9be91e98fd2be7905c342ea208c26a46b5eaf21d6410140e7833119f855ae1cf
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet 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 the user to open the malicious document, which then executes a payload. The detection name itself suggests the file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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