Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fde8eabed1a92e4a…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dc9097b6f7d30e87d3c696afb8d496b7 SHA-1: fd65d6d78118689855af9cc706a24407bd21ab62 SHA-256: fde8eabed1a92e4ac7d40bac9dc9496701bb208aa14edadc4c1a17f0e03f55fb
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

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 Excel format suggests it likely uses macro-based execution to download and run a secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 1

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