Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ab9ec9eaa499be0…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 04cbf19e1460fbf04a0b2fb874be06cf SHA-1: 4c77c2d6f641c05650a2334f0972028ad2041f8c SHA-256: 4ab9ec9eaa499be0cdfa8aa08e0f1c3d0b602d821ae5f5eb4808555f44b9c42e
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 identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating a Qbot family infection. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or other Office exploits to download and run a secondary payload. The primary IOC is the file's SHA256 hash.

Heuristics 1

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