Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f952b0cff95a6a14…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f83e5bfec81a612921bc0a4055c2325b SHA-1: b8bb5ab6def8897c69fa9a4698e41c45ebf636fc SHA-256: f952b0cff95a6a147535d853c3379ced0fc11516c2158b44505c4778cdb6b208
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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 heuristic firing suggests the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. This aligns with Qbot's typical distribution methods via malicious Office documents.

Heuristics 1

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