Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af6b9243a5b2fcb4…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 9a320813a197dcb5285182c111c301ae SHA-1: 9cef6702532c30559b57f17ba307cf2134d9deb3 SHA-256: af6b9243a5b2fcb4e9543e1ee76ab9c3f3e4093c8f5d67607c69dd12217974ab
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. While no specific VBA or script content was extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the file's primary purpose is to download and execute a malicious payload. 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