Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc89f7d9302347c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 96db6f14df78c62828c722f0432f0c27 SHA-1: 4799dc8cc8f76063323edc92f75f4750f2e44958 SHA-256: afc89f7d9302347c92babf8a8f4f13d836540d65f2d394888ef99d154ec120a9
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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 primary attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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