Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6f85fb6a1532cf…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

29.5 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: f957bf14fddb358de58551f76bec73a0 SHA-1: 952a467a36af3be9be312de68ad068c44de0d40b SHA-256: ae6f85fb6a1532cf4e07fe50a491dd99369bcfa0f5d7f0c838505778e2cf2f58
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it belongs to the Qbot family and functions as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing suggests the Excel file contains malicious macros or embedded objects intended to download and execute a secondary payload, a common Qbot distribution method. 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