Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae4d0f48ef158613…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 16f8d5c6939144744650855c0630b4f9 SHA-1: da8280d45903a3e3afe0471a0afc7e29a2e0e548 SHA-256: ae4d0f48ef1586133923291110a0e59be3a76fbc89c5004e740830ab1b66b232
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0, strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant. As a dropper, its primary function is to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The file's structure and heuristic detection point towards a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Heuristics 1

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