Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b49db824ac1dd230…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d05c1c404d8ffe8b8b09832d4b6aa117 SHA-1: 71a988873c54c5228dc511716ad3c89a72d9bf26 SHA-256: b49db824ac1dd23099fa75330806e1f434082b4909e1ead3ef7dd267f8c49b05
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name suggests it leverages Excel macros to initiate the malicious execution chain. This points to a phishing attack where the user is tricked into opening the malicious spreadsheet.

Heuristics 1

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