Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aee8e572aa8d6151…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 02fbfabf63ae180946d2469d51905990 SHA-1: 10bf56571a3990845992ea89db446929ae0aabd0 SHA-256: aee8e572aa8d61510b4e7847f2f3d32f8eb3ce6dc5a6e0748fccf5dc04b585c4
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it's a Qbot dropper. Such documents typically rely on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros. Once enabled, the embedded malicious code executes, likely downloading and running the Qbot payload.

Heuristics 1

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