Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa26ed466f793583…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 51e81e3d4b1861c428a68a8407695ea1 SHA-1: 74650017b71722f04c2a68cba3512bc489d8c8a8 SHA-256: aa26ed466f7935831b0e09a4559f94317c7f3ee50bd8bcc8c93d2ed3636efa8d
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', strongly 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 payload. While no specific scripts or document body were extracted, the ClamAV signature is sufficient for attribution and understanding the attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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