Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aae7433acccfc47…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c74dbc543bb9369c8d28597a5a1a113f SHA-1: b029ee0ca2339e4c1b36e8e6ccc05849befdaa34 SHA-256: 2aae7433acccfc47bc13aaeaa9592513a1b38e9644cb323ff6d4d6bf91ac4d85
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', a known Qbot dropper variant. This indicates the Excel file's primary purpose is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, consistent with Qbot's typical behavior. The detection strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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