Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b460702389705d73…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d52b57d25bfb17408134cfe348bb18e5 SHA-1: 1c171ab547722aabe49e2d2de37f471ba76ae225 SHA-256: b460702389705d73ebbb88ee6e567413da7718a5674153c151a017e07b663034
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection implies the Excel file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload. Further analysis would be required to confirm the specific execution chain and dropped artifacts.

Heuristics 1

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