Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac8ec9c897569590…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ca956fed42b63902af1474d5ab35b02c SHA-1: de6b8d01455cd612e50b4ae64b7ff54dcc7ee317 SHA-256: ac8ec9c897569590c4cd51050eeda8777b08df25cc1b3fe98be249584bb1462c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically flags it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The file's purpose is to likely execute malicious code upon opening, leading to Qbot infection.

Heuristics 1

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