Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d24252e29c8d4b61…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ccac14499bf29ab5377af66abead8255 SHA-1: c0f41f038c87ccdcf54409542b0901c099d0e02d SHA-256: d24252e29c8d4b6112b8f61cade77ff93e86cd09cbcf91122abb05a660546754
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. 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