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Database Entry

RemcosRAT

Vendor detections: 12

Maldoc score: 9

Intelligence 12 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229
SHA3-384 hash:	e6444d354437ac9779401a95a99f8d0f2049d3bcb047abf45f9cc05c5e6168a75cda314297aaa0537c1028626700d8d7
SHA1 hash:	638744c271ba8c034828e2d303f6beb4730e2bcd
MD5 hash:	2f168228b1900f2dfa70715c1c28a21b
humanhash:	mexico-nevada-coffee-nineteen
File name:	DHL_Shipping_Document.xls
Download:	download sample
Signature	RemcosRAT Create hunting rule
File size:	202'240 bytes
First seen:	2026-09-23 08:36:44 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	xls
MIME type:	application/vnd.ms-excel
ssdeep	6144:I0xQ51ZGSilZbeBcVdU9eMR3QQGv7tqJEp2:eJGbaBQU913zGuO2
TLSH	T12C1412A833C1C286F1565D388DD4C0E79652FC619E46C74F3EC2B35EBB35694490B39A
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	abuse_ch
Tags:	DHL RemcosRAT 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

Embedded Images

MalwareBazaar found the following images embedded in this file:

MD5 hash	dc.creator	# of relations
548b5a596ab516169ca1461040b93005	openpyxl	3

OLE dump

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

Section ID	Section size	Section name
1	114 bytes	CompObj
2	244 bytes	DocumentSummaryInformation
3	200 bytes	SummaryInformation
4	99 bytes	MBD0171A666/CompObj
5	156150 bytes	MBD0171A666/Package
6	852 bytes	MBD0171A667/Ole
7	29978 bytes	Workbook
8	529 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECT
9	104 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECTwm
10	977 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet1
11	977 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet2
12	977 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet3
13	985 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/ThisWorkbook
14	2644 bytes	_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/_VBA_PROJECT
15	553 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:

Type	Keyword	Description
Suspicious	Hex Strings	Hex-encoded strings were detected, may beused to obfuscate strings (option --decode tosee all)

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

153

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware configuration found for:

MSO

Details

Link:

https://research.acce.ciphertechsolutions.com/results/2fa7a568-5060-4f2e-94e8-22693f232852/

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

xls

Verdict:

No threats detected

Analysis date:

2026-09-23 11:17:53 UTC

Tags:

n/a

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/6fd68a20-59b1-4f7d-8a11-4223458b5b8f

Note:

ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample

Verdict:

Legit

File type:

text/xml

Has a screenshot:

False

Contains macros:

False

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/88557/

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.Trojan.VBA.Agent-16.UNOFFICIAL

Sanesecurity.Badmacro.Xls.BadUsr1.UNOFFICIAL

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

DNS request

Сreating synchronization primitives

Creating a window

Connection attempt to an infection source by exploiting the app vulnerability

Connection attempt by exploiting the app vulnerability

Sending an HTTP GET request

Query of malicious DNS domain

Result

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

Legacy Excel File with Macro

Link:

https://app.docguard.net/c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229/results/dashboard

Behaviour

SuspiciousRTF detected

Verdict:

Unknown

Threat level:

2.5/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

macros

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/6ab38fbfb50b2b8485e76fa2/reports/fe54142e-1e6d-4147-a2fb-48b0766d3bd2/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

CVE-2017-0199

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229

Label:

Malicious

Suspicious Score:

10/10

Score Malicious:

Score Benign:

Link:

https://www.malware.ai/gui/files/?id=b496c8d2-d6aa-4780-b325-b5db0d5f9057

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

xls

First seen:

2026-09-23T03:50:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-09-24T06:07:00Z UTC

Hits:

~1000

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229/results?tab=lookup

Result

Threat name:

n/a

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

n/a

Score:

60 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1976644

Signature

Antivirus detection for URL or domain

Excel sheet contains many unusual embedded objects

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Score:

100%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

OFFICE

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229

Gathering data

Detection:

remcos

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229/

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=ykllneekb7g3f3ylkbjmlqhos5vi36eojdk2dcrqlwx35wpc6iuq._file

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

10/10

Tags:

discovery persistence ransomware

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260923-kh91zsgh35/

Behaviour

Checks processor information in registry

Enumerates system info in registry

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider

Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery

Process spawned unexpected child process

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/c296b6908a0fcdb2ef0b5052c5c0ee976a8df88e48d5a18a305dafbed9e2f229

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 Create hunting rule
Author:	Jeff White (karttoon@gmail.com) @noottrak
Description:	Identify OLE Project protection within documents.

Rule name:	XLS_STRINGS Create hunting rule
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.

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/88557/

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