Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b732d0518280a357…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 01d011107330317810596f52d6974d58 SHA-1: daca835d123fb51965e2509dc741cede9b405e71 SHA-256: b732d0518280a357000164d5346ad37404752eebf6d3ba38f57f0c8059d8c17c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The heuristic firing suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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