Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab7aabe48c76099…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d06913ae118f4cbe4b8b0f601611b914 SHA-1: f7dfbf796e33a8e0f70863e7254e180a748f292b SHA-256: fab7aabe48c76099957826fce65b47eb812259c59ae81dd0b9fcbba35a08de32
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document flagged by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0'. This detection strongly suggests it is part of a Qbot (also known as Qakbot or Pinkslipbot) distribution campaign, which commonly uses macro-enabled documents for initial infection. The dropper functionality indicates it likely downloads and executes a secondary payload.

Heuristics 1

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