Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad6451b2489f5a52…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 5830fcd727a8ca24832a887d013bc2d4 SHA-1: 6f04bbbb057aad933b092d8800e141e6848224cb SHA-256: ad6451b2489f5a52f05c0bac5f228e4233fb69c7df278fafbef2cc00de0e9149
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 drop and execute a secondary payload. The presence of macro-related heuristics further supports its role as a downloader. 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