Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdff383ca5c37f51…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 3aea58f49d57c51f3e6aa4628d99de48 SHA-1: 53f48c54a541774cf9b11bb7c48b0afda3b6e703 SHA-256: bdff383ca5c37f511294356e1d142f1fceca7c317b3505281b29b53a2a9bccde
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. Although no VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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