Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aea8bb856914ed62…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cd86c212199c68b0d76d71881dd00965 SHA-1: accf398058b446948a83e510638348b048cb103c SHA-256: aea8bb856914ed62f9ac6eaec6962ff043008f4d8d667b34b09ce673fa1fd5bb
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 banking trojan. The heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary stage payload. The primary attack pattern is therefore phishing via a malicious attachment, leading to malware execution.

Heuristics 1

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

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