Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae52219c1b945f14…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: dcedb86547daab8274c3af876f1331c6 SHA-1: 1f99c78cfbfa841c11acced14605afcd1db94618 SHA-256: ae52219c1b945f1419a7c1614cb65e6220aa3ad44b620ef4ad538a0c34e27f58
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1566 Phishing

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 file's nature as an Excel document further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector. 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