Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcedf7258a4fa970…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 57be460fecbc01e9d5064faba6276518 SHA-1: 3bfc7e7d35c3ffccc165815283b57851316c30ed SHA-256: dcedf7258a4fa9702c0ce5a13fa303fd04d46a330b847b4e608663a6b7178fc3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious Shell Script

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 Excel format suggests it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary malicious payload, a common tactic for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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