Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2aa71de1a25e27a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d21dedfebe4a1ad5f22e2a1dadfd77be SHA-1: b8bed4105bfed0c5145d510a939a8e0a3588ce7b SHA-256: a2aa71de1a25e27a97ebfe7e408c80ac93a1494d048f10b53b3f3e21b708c5da
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 name suggests it leverages macro-based execution within an Excel document to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to the execution of malicious code.

Heuristics 1

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