Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9c98156fe71f4d…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4c5bd04e1ff57ecaa3cbe1580e8bc6f3 SHA-1: 61ba56a554572610ed2a7d57167591617b937a6d SHA-256: cd9c98156fe71f4dde9261b2ba1e23e67206600d4cf882c6a0b33930d7dfd879
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 identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. The detection name itself suggests the malware family and its dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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