Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af71fe17a12a75e3…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: c25ab41cfaaa4bb1bb85d56ad2fc3706 SHA-1: 4a4684e4f719018a7fad1e50b930e909d4c917bb SHA-256: af71fe17a12a75e3bb45a41c58c71c288ecae2d45afe0d3cf1708c774c427298
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 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 VBA or scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic indicates the presence of malicious code within the Excel document, likely intended to download and execute a further stage. 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