Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adaa9ccaf266f6c6…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 405c0d9a4036d713622f0c8df389a665 SHA-1: c3225fda6c5cef74639166a18100d99abf04fcea SHA-256: adaa9ccaf266f6c62f12fb58bc50e301bda96045c2502f4d38758cc5f81eb062
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. The primary attack pattern involves luring a user into opening a malicious Excel file, which then likely executes embedded malicious code to download and run a further stage. 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