Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8411315561b3803…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c3abebbd7b75fba8f985b33c221c4f71 SHA-1: e0c2649f63fd1f2a2002350f7244c8860b65688a SHA-256: e8411315561b3803bfb251cc7a6905a99ac46cb2dd380868ed23c42f9e9df6c2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. Qbot is known for its capabilities as a banking trojan and information stealer, often delivered via macro-enabled documents. The heuristic firing directly attributes the file to Qbot, suggesting its primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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