Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdae5a676fb76bc1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 7ef9dae663097665df3b45d5677223f5 SHA-1: 2357ed75027c4c0d18910a8f12f459bf0db5c73b SHA-256: cdae5a676fb76bc12b7a6a53372384d3265dcede4631048a35d6c462b5148fc1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The document's structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to execute malicious code, likely to download and run a further stage 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