Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fafe54ac54263798…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 6cf8b6569e0e022a2537168ba6579fc2 SHA-1: 3c666963b86a3ddd19bbba3ecbd6074b36128ddb SHA-256: fafe54ac54263798bc6f3ae9d0cd183a512816668c8d86ec9222e1562674d9f9
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 its role as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The Excel format and the heuristic firing suggest it likely uses macro execution to download and run a malicious payload.

Heuristics 1

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