Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa95ee063d3af556…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a681ea31063f798b1efb9120d7379b16 SHA-1: 061442642e2cbd4b9cf2c59281364b6f62444a90 SHA-256: aa95ee063d3af5565ab2ca4265d7efef1cd302e756b39b6a94936d0e8f1d6773
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Static analysis identified the file as a malicious Excel document. The ClamAV heuristic specifically names it as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot dropper. The file's purpose is to download and execute a secondary payload, characteristic of Qbot's typical infection chain.

Heuristics 1

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