Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9c0ad617f920cdd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bfe3fdd587db71b1699e79ded22b10dc SHA-1: cd7a1374c4c68920870afd2548b026726e8af058 SHA-256: f9c0ad617f920cddd4f8c392375ed4ec94370d165f501495dcc3970c2314fc80
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 detection name suggests it leverages macro-based execution to download and install the secondary payload. 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