Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa1b60b12abcf8b2…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 825c47e53b53fb8ddb4125043d73ded4 SHA-1: 4e8b551e6a1f9e606abb37735f87df6f1029b390 SHA-256: aa1b60b12abcf8b289509742b44b24da30036dba0e6b5284511dd6428d094947
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then executes a secondary payload. While no specific scripts or document body content were provided, the heuristic detection strongly suggests a malicious dropper.

Heuristics 1

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