Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2401e134350ab46…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: fe3ab527236c0f08a29a0f4434d46ed6 SHA-1: dfb3b2a349806b2609eeb666e2ccf1507848d03e SHA-256: e2401e134350ab4614e0dbbb86bfe8ee3f4a2739b296e8d3431d62bad7648b23
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. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leveraging the malicious Excel document to initiate the infection chain. Further analysis would be required to determine the exact execution method of the secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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