Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed5a6aeb67388c16…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 85f98750098e8a88b6a5ed0c7953aa44 SHA-1: e800e72eb6115a7d2af1c9ac2c6b8ebd06f62bc9 SHA-256: ed5a6aeb67388c1698b469b5330c09f9a41283e3750d9b1283e9e5e4ebd43cb1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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 luring the user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. While no specific VBA or script content was provided, the heuristic detection points to a dropper functionality, likely involving the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 1

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