Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aac587efd69442bd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 189ec8065612e489edb2280b785ab6b6 SHA-1: c12ae45f2bcc5e60fafe2b3dfc64ad008898584f SHA-256: aac587efd69442bd5c8f7d03478eac8917746fa31351207a18a4f2638a95c7ea
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical ClamAV heuristic identifies this XLSX file as a Qbot dropper, a known banking trojan. This strongly indicates the file's purpose is to deliver a secondary malicious payload to the victim's system. The file's metadata and detection name align with this dropper functionality.

Heuristics 1

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