Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae940cfa0a625ffc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0d864f3f19a7c7c26f1fcfb12bdb4cf3 SHA-1: be84579f659b76cb0f4ff4711aacf9acdd2bf576 SHA-256: ae940cfa0a625ffcf0a0a35e8ea59a235df2c9a9299b50ac34f2bd884256882f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. While no document body or scripts were extracted, the detection name implies the file's purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload, likely leveraging Office macro capabilities.

Heuristics 1

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