Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f961706414addeef…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 462ecbe90920a95e66682e8767ea7afb SHA-1: c71f0cbfd769ee68251c5dcf1ed1751519d94798 SHA-256: f961706414addeefabd377cd16bfb82233327ec31296bac6c61fbda15af6f18a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

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 detection name suggests the malware leverages macro-based execution within the Excel document to download and run a subsequent stage. This is a common delivery method for Qbot.

Heuristics 1

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