Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4a17490cedfa9a1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 54766e7c94ae330347ec92bb2275d968 SHA-1: aa88ee3644de0a8cbf057bdcabf4bb0f2d506810 SHA-256: c4a17490cedfa9a17f35fe96d6ad9dd757797d07b88cd58565a6a256eca30a67
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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 primary function is to execute a malicious payload, likely downloaded from a remote source, which is characteristic of Qbot's initial infection vector. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly reliable.

Heuristics 1

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