Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeb156e982db57d3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: bfdd061533cd512cc75fb268b5f8640e SHA-1: 7aeb5c5829a91dbd6c90659c4d841eb5468d6305 SHA-256: aeb156e982db57d3f67a88f93e9a655cc46c7d68b8bfe2bd8f4afbaee6cddd5f
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a dropper. This malicious document likely uses social engineering to trick users into enabling macros, which then initiate the download process.

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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