Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 add2fa5f61fdfade…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0f849b05222a67e0d903b067727b99c7 SHA-1: eace1d9e39c20812966418d17a26de0812a39440 SHA-256: add2fa5f61fdfade69f0a59f299cfa1080d038c3f579a2abf0e41970c55f3084
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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 malicious nature is confirmed by the verdict and the heuristic firing. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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