Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aebe8d31458c2cc0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: ea2f672cc4e04337088817107dd985b3 SHA-1: 250db9a6e12c9d4c3e6d47ce5f7bec6cc7750f4e SHA-256: aebe8d31458c2cc06639191a72944f5f736edd6940b0b0f1785b0e7d2746bc85
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious attachment, which then executes a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is provided as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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