Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d552b8631b2a9430…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e106352e70ad574466a78b9f5f976cf4 SHA-1: 41a0fc946c53f143e6eed7d98472780e9c29e95c SHA-256: d552b8631b2a94304c7eb77a7dc9d72a0b16322b3b6c7b5d5dd59af34796ff81
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 an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload. This is a common delivery method for Qbot, aiming to compromise user systems for financial theft or further network intrusion.

Heuristics 1

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