Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dedc2408c42b55fc…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

21.4 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: a1e796d4ea19e96e9dec33b3898df593 SHA-1: a2d1c9c669dbf9673cf0c5b0b88f2d605d8fc154 SHA-256: dedc2408c42b55fcf7c72901fe9b7ca9c05a43dd5c5d80154f6682b46e59b236
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly suggesting it is a Qbot variant designed to drop a secondary payload. The Excel format indicates a likely social engineering lure to enable macros, which would then initiate the download and execution of the malware. 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