Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f456b137523d4a2f…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: e95d5ad502d04331fdcb0359692b8eb3 SHA-1: 88d8d719e031b761ca5383a34d043d63c895f69e SHA-256: f456b137523d4a2ffed6128366a5293d0a34754c6d2fc0b4eaffa18128118976
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 85%

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

The ClamAV heuristic 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0' strongly suggests this Excel file is a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. Dropper malware typically aims to download and execute a secondary, more potent payload. The file's nature as an Excel document points towards a phishing or social engineering vector to trick users into opening it.

Heuristics 1

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