Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbe959d68aea4d71…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c3cd2c22a950610de10b0828ac2b757d SHA-1: 69e210793029140566688248bf5c5f1406133e94 SHA-256: dbe959d68aea4d71e18d27a047a434cc1be7c023c6dc9d5fdb1c6018b9672317
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 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. The presence of macro-related heuristics suggests it likely uses Visual Basic for Applications to execute its malicious payload, a common technique for Qbot delivery. The primary function is to download and run a second-stage malware.

Heuristics 1

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