Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29f493893083a74…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 85be3a2b2e761a35be43b3f8f1e23640 SHA-1: 5210a2771a807ee87f75eaf7decbeabb110a5309 SHA-256: d29f493893083a74f747da06473f08031df177e7e524db8bb604ba7bceb76287
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 indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. While no VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic firing is sufficient to classify this as a malicious macro-enabled document. Its primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior.

Heuristics 1

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