Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef7b26c04cd4f84…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 26b62d3d3d97aec867016629c43c8af6 SHA-1: 8a40545d0523b58e570839af8d07844324c88abe SHA-256: aef7b26c04cd4f8454528c98688020813e0f1a2d2f39afa21794a2c342178d60
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

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

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating Qbot family. Its primary function is to act as a dropper, likely executing a second-stage payload. The file's metadata and heuristic firing suggest it's part of a phishing campaign to deliver malware.

Heuristics 1

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