Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aabf4ee5fbf865c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 395c7a1df093b0a2676617270eabc9ce SHA-1: 5a4ef2ededa5efc689ead44e9be5c20463451ff0 SHA-256: 8aabf4ee5fbf865c10844e42f6a9634001aaac03451f013e9bca27439ddbb9b5
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. The primary function is to deliver a malicious payload, leveraging the common spearphishing attachment vector. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is highly specific.

Heuristics 1

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