Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f90f4ce7c198a322…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 74873695c269d7279af0d5d558ce1d08 SHA-1: 615c54c703749d8a1dee3425acae03ce6aed81eb SHA-256: f90f4ce7c198a322e9e409cf2e8055f6cd8eeea5b84c8acd73bc8507b8bd4910
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The presence of macro-related heuristics, though not explicitly detailed here, is typical for Qbot delivery via malicious Office documents. This suggests the document likely contains malicious VBA code to download and execute a secondary payload, consistent with Qbot's known distribution methods.

Heuristics 1

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