Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f2bc7aa023cb61…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: d7829d5e507c96765dffe5ef270ce9ce SHA-1: 9794b83860bfc522955eaf224aa68246a4efc2e8 SHA-256: a6f2bc7aa023cb61aaaf7e9d5df62342ca448f608f70ea19b060bad0240cd5be
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role in executing malicious code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

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