Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc5ec15178f8202c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: daff8cb6276995b70b07ca12b8a624f5 SHA-1: 0835351ea593ebac793160602f74be12e65aec9c SHA-256: fc5ec15178f8202c6779a9c58394e4204c2cc892ce5b98ad6666f29fb050ca0c
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User 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 metadata shows it is an Excel file, consistent with macro-enabled malicious documents used for initial payload delivery. The primary attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes the embedded Qbot malware.

Heuristics 1

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