Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f36249899896e9fa…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a187f99a00a867310d9727114521e1db SHA-1: 8b94a84780b01dd646990eaf3a006404b6826be9 SHA-256: f36249899896e9fa971926acc809aed732b440a0d58ed9c4ed7bb4ed0783969d
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating its role as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The Excel format and the dropper nature suggest it is delivered via spearphishing, relying on user execution to trigger the malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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