Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae667524e55864a1…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 019164c14fdd31358fcc75feca8c9f95 SHA-1: adfd6bc1c4f7684a3c267046c5ac5d66825000dd SHA-256: ae667524e55864a1f58c81085af0c7419f21e11369a162d32197c31787db53d1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an Excel document identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is part of a Qbot (also known as Qakbot) distribution campaign. Qbot often uses macro-enabled documents to deliver its payload, making this a common initial access vector. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary indicator.

Heuristics 1

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