Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b12e04812d8162d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 0ca795e933c8272abcddffd6605e8e6e SHA-1: 81708ae351b73076dce7e2b321e08bd6ffdbc238 SHA-256: b12e04812d8162d96e22c050ee2fc526f3ad17add63c0fb35cab60ce2f22d87b
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 it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The presence of macro-related heuristics, even without explicit script content shown, supports the attack pattern of a malicious macro-enabled document. The primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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