Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afb10c86607b551d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4828f9d694692009a553063d5bbdc678 SHA-1: e2ab0aac7d36447866845b830c57ddcb0f11aa53 SHA-256: afb10c86607b551dcc87f2baf99996f4f18960e4a159ea76182224964c4cf087
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves delivering this malicious payload via a spearphishing attachment. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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