Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3cb189ed81749d9…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 58c32bc0f35c9a57f53ae83dcac9b357 SHA-1: ae84e67bd7d6fd201c36ae066da994f0a3e50f16 SHA-256: e3cb189ed81749d99efaf470fd9fb4c6cc2294b4920214d98c293a19532e1bc2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

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, though not explicitly detailed here, further supports its role as a malicious document designed to execute a payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, leading the user to open the malicious Excel file and trigger the execution of the secondary stage.

Heuristics 1

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