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You are currently viewing the MalwareBazaar entry for SHA256 2e302f81ee0d3b092cd8e08c80a9c26a584e05d117da424487b3118f946a295d. While MalwareBazaar tries to identify whether the sample provided is malicious or not, there is no guarantee that a sample in MalwareBazaar is malicious.

Database Entry



Threat unknown


Vendor detections: 12


Maldoc score: 9


Intelligence 12 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 2e302f81ee0d3b092cd8e08c80a9c26a584e05d117da424487b3118f946a295d
SHA3-384 hash: d5b71b64fb39ae28ecef379ff4c16a2130cf842dcb067f634e8c7218b1ef8d01eee1677ea2a4f6d4b44ecb2d98f0a826
SHA1 hash: 085eaf24cd5cd83a893d7d8bd47a77e982e2e46a
MD5 hash: c937c611c703cb8c47aad50b155f3756
humanhash: idaho-bluebird-arkansas-cardinal
File name:RFQ-0022B01292026722004.xls
Download: download sample
File size:576'000 bytes
First seen:2026-07-23 05:56:32 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Excel file xls
MIME type:application/vnd.ms-excel
ssdeep 12288:DGfwI82BUgjYqQgc5JsrvQagErarJxX6lFYO:afwI/rsqQrCgnUFY
TLSH T1CEC423587BE8DF23C297C1B90E84C5BB644AFC675791F9073221B31DA234B22955B72C
TrID 34.9% (.XLS) Microsoft Excel sheet (32500/1/3)
30.1% (.XLS) Microsoft Excel sheet (alternate) (28000/1/3)
26.3% (.XLS) Microsoft Excel sheet (alternate) (24500/1/2)
8.6% (.) Generic OLE2 / Multistream Compound (8000/1)
Magika xls
Reporter lowmal3
Tags:cve-2017-0199 xls

Office OLE Information


This malware samples appears to be an Office document. The following table provides more information about this document using oletools and oledump.

OLE id
Maldoc score: 9
Application name is Microsoft Excel
File Format is MS Excel 97-2003
Container Format is OLE
Office document is in encrypted
Office document contains VBA Macros
OLE dump

MalwareBazaar was able to identify 15 sections in this file using oledump:

Section IDSection sizeSection name
1114 bytesCompObj
2244 bytesDocumentSummaryInformation
3200 bytesSummaryInformation
499 bytesMBD001ECD29/CompObj
5199395 bytesMBD001ECD29/Package
6850 bytesMBD001ECD2A/Ole
7357431 bytesWorkbook
8525 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECT
9104 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECTwm
10977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet1
11977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet2
12977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet3
13985 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/ThisWorkbook
142644 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/_VBA_PROJECT
15553 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/dir
OLE vba

MalwareBazaar was able to extract and deobfuscate VBA script(s) the following information from OLE objects embedded in this file using olevba:

TypeKeywordDescription
SuspiciousHex StringsHex-encoded strings were detected, may beused to obfuscate strings (option --decode tosee all)

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
177
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Verdict:
Legit
File type:
application/vnd.ms-excel
Has a screenshot:
False
Contains macros:
False
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Creating a window
Сreating synchronization primitives
Connection attempt by exploiting the app vulnerability
Sending an HTTP GET request
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
Legacy Excel File with Macro
Payload URLs
URL
File name
http://00000000000031413056526/engage.cisco.comamer-ai-readiness-for-data-centers.htmlccid=cc006211&dtid=psexsp001647&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=pdc-nexus&utm_id=cc0062201.php
Embedded Ole
Behaviour
SuspiciousRTF detected
Verdict:
Unknown
Threat level:
  0/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
evasive macros
Label:
Malicious
Suspicious Score:
10/10
Score Malicious:
1%
Score Benign:
0%
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
xls
First seen:
2026-07-21T00:42:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-07-25T02:00:00Z UTC
Hits:
~1000
Result
Threat name:
n/a
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
expl
Score:
56 / 100
Signature
Document exploit detected (process start blacklist hit)
Excel sheet contains many unusual embedded objects
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1946935 Sample: RFQ-0022B01292026722004.xls Startdate: 23/07/2026 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 56 31 us1.roaming1.live.com.akadns.net 2->31 33 s-0005.dual-s-msedge.net 2->33 35 19 other IPs or domains 2->35 45 Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file 2->45 47 Excel sheet contains many unusual embedded objects 2->47 49 Document exploit detected (process start blacklist hit) 2->49 9 EXCEL.EXE 505 76 2->9         started        13 EXCEL.EXE 21 56 2->13         started        signatures3 process4 dnsIp5 37 mr-b01.tm-azurefd.net 150.171.109.72, 443, 62820, 62822 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK-MicrosoftCorporationUS South Africa 9->37 39 mr-z01.tm-azurefd.net 150.171.109.74, 443, 62832, 62833 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK-MicrosoftCorporationUS South Africa 9->39 43 3 other IPs or domains 9->43 29 C:\...\RFQ-0022B01292026722004.xls (copy), Composite 9->29 dropped 15 Acrobat.exe 74 9->15         started        17 appidcertstorecheck.exe 1 9->17         started        19 splwow64.exe 9->19         started        21 splwow64.exe 9->21         started        41 prod.officeenrichment.osi.office.net.akadns.net 52.111.229.114, 443, 62844 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK-MicrosoftCorporationUS United States 13->41 file6 process7 process8 23 AcroCEF.exe 72 15->23         started        25 conhost.exe 17->25         started        process9 27 AcroCEF.exe 2 23->27         started       
Verdict:
inconclusive
YARA:
5 match(es)
Tags:
Office Document
Threat name:
Document-Excel.Exploit.CVE-2017-0199
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-07-21 12:55:53 UTC
File Type:
Document
Extracted files:
62
AV detection:
8 of 24 (33.33%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  1/10
Tags:
persistence ransomware
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Uses Task Scheduler COM API
Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider
Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

YARA Signatures


MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:informational_win_ole_protected
Author:Jeff White (karttoon@gmail.com) @noottrak
Description:Identify OLE Project protection within documents.
Rule name:XLS_STRINGS
Author:somedieyoungZZ
Description:Detect Strings targeting Bangladesh

File information


The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

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