Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aee5c5df356b46ad…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 50b256d4a37778dc2eb7d12e594b6b69 SHA-1: c1b0628293942e5b7dd1159c1acd9cbbd71deeaa SHA-256: aee5c5df356b46add44c844366f5cb52887383bd7dd752ec7d0303919c232f89
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 malware family. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious Excel file, likely via spearphishing, to initiate the execution of a secondary payload. No VBA or scripts were extracted, but the heuristic detection is sufficient for attribution.

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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