Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a725e6936c172a25…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cc9bf4a78ce0ba09b24ee29f91fb33f0 SHA-1: a6309d32d744afb2b8bd07a91434ee62a26597a6 SHA-256: a725e6936c172a25f9a5a705aa232302b1ba82de0dfd9a1e986e11565e68e45c
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. As an Excel document, it likely uses macro execution or exploits to download and execute a secondary payload, a common tactic for Qbot. 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