Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 affa7cab9e8ae679…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 50a4110b7423af1cfd11a35d1591c26e SHA-1: d3eb88b7e8b7d9c2488fc8bd572dd63942953881 SHA-256: affa7cab9e8ae679394c199ef3e75d97803e1f5d9750f3de564ba967b865bfb6
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its function as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. While no specific VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic detection points to a malicious Excel file intended to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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