Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2acd842c24eaa4f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4fb0e8263c82f780b979f55f65a4720f SHA-1: aec3ca689a743d2eb81e39e088f16a78aff53369 SHA-256: c2acd842c24eaa4f9ad8362765aff08a6fa1cce00f44bf0773420b03ea4113a1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. As an Excel document, it likely relies on macro execution or a vulnerability 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