Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a508b22231153bee…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8032437526fec51bb765cadad36c7f49 SHA-1: 18cc427322a511f160c0769a43125907475b36bf SHA-256: a508b22231153bee0ea302eb957f24efd030ec70b1b8715ce31f144b57db7179
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes a payload to download and install further malware. The specific nature of the payload is not detailed in the provided heuristics.

Heuristics 1

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