Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbab56dd60de4846…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 863eb246a962f3e2ebf2aecd9bf6c7fb SHA-1: 6055f115bd71514ff526837cd81d0f416260d063 SHA-256: bbab56dd60de4846d0feaadb080e6cbc2885123f3e3cb3bf624ac4e43e36d080
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 VBA scripts or document body text were extracted, the heuristic firing indicates the primary function is to download and execute a malicious payload. 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