Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8ad4ba933a142c7…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 1e584e337737bf7b7f53ce4426c2396c SHA-1: c828102981deb8ffdbdda2f812ca0008d533d3ac SHA-256: e8ad4ba933a142c7f459f419d872890e157b65221a4f9f2e4affc7d79749ab32
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves delivering a malicious payload via a spearphishing attachment. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution.

Heuristics 1

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