Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a36798f477efb8ea…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9188b917bca22158095f075c367c06a2 SHA-1: e2287607ff58f801a3489640ab384c7dea5d8afd SHA-256: a36798f477efb8ea01c175f5e0633748348049c3a8902885b9ea994afb4c9c79
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 primary function of such documents is to trick users into enabling macros, which then execute to download and run a malicious payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator of compromise.

Heuristics 1

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