Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa87c5e3c2669844…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: af8b8aaecae335ed9a3217061cb5c7c4 SHA-1: cd47f1ae836acd9593213e4a65a3e7cab0b60463 SHA-256: aa87c5e3c266984481a959bd6f83255ca9b07ccec170d8aefd75e8fb4b86c396
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as a Qbot dropper (Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0). Qbot, also known as Qakbot or Pinkslipbot, is a banking trojan and information stealer that often uses macro-enabled documents to deliver its initial payload. This detection strongly suggests the file's purpose is to download and execute additional malware.

Heuristics 1

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