Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c439e791a994c16d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 8173ac5a26e5c009f79ba76f5ebbe7cb SHA-1: de0dce5eec77fa69fb4f4794b6ecb84915fd5787 SHA-256: c439e791a994c16d0e43e82998fe92325af59d575a3fec0ae2698a5606d00495
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution within an Excel spreadsheet to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with common Qbot distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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