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You are currently viewing the MalwareBazaar entry for SHA256 df50794d348b4b83dcabe05fe5f61948ab01f1ce2ecef965bcc384b7b188ebd3. 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: 13


Maldoc score: 9


Intelligence 13 IOCs YARA 4 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: df50794d348b4b83dcabe05fe5f61948ab01f1ce2ecef965bcc384b7b188ebd3
SHA3-384 hash: 5152a195b80393587f1b5a2f670a1297981b84c38f3bae91c3252e8e8c3988489923df82bf362bdf27acb8837bbea249
SHA1 hash: cb7551f9422a6c688ed929efe2b47050b9f327dd
MD5 hash: 09fa3b607e9a2e1ecf8766892212bdbd
humanhash: social-mike-utah-fourteen
File name:CI.xls
Download: download sample
File size:875'008 bytes
First seen:2026-08-11 07:27:58 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Excel file xls
MIME type:application/vnd.ms-excel
ssdeep 24576:PbLSv9k7FKYt1QRT/64rmC0GGnnSeJwszR:PbL3FKYtmB6DSeJws1
TLSH T118151212FF808A36D58657310BE761C6E72DFC2BEF254A0F2302772A7D76AE1D460919
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: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 22 sections in this file using oledump:

Section IDSection sizeSection name
1114 bytesCompObj
2244 bytesDocumentSummaryInformation
3200 bytesSummaryInformation
499 bytesMBD0001CB87/CompObj
5219404 bytesMBD0001CB87/Package
6114 bytesMBD0001CB88/CompObj
7220 bytesMBD0001CB88/DocumentSummaryInformation
8132 bytesMBD0001CB88/SummaryInformation
994 bytesMBD0001CB88/MBD00233248/CompObj
1020 bytesMBD0001CB88/MBD00233248/Ole
11245706 bytesMBD0001CB88/MBD00233248/CONTENTS
1271663 bytesMBD0001CB88/Workbook
13684 bytesMBD0001CB89/Ole
14314099 bytesWorkbook
15529 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECT
16104 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/PROJECTwm
17977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet1
18977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet2
19977 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/Sheet3
20985 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/ThisWorkbook
212644 bytes_VBA_PROJECT_CUR/VBA/_VBA_PROJECT
22552 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 :
161
Origin country :
SE SE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Verdict:
Legit
File type:
application/vnd.ms-excel
Has a screenshot:
False
Contains macros:
False
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
96.5%
Tags:
virus macro micro
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
DNS request
Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests
Creating a process with a hidden window
Connection attempt
Sending a custom TCP request
Sending an HTTP GET request
Possible injection to a system process
Forced shutdown of a system process
Bypassing of proactive protection methods using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Launching a process by exploiting the app vulnerability
Unauthorized injection to a system process
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
Legacy Excel File with Macro
Payload URLs
URL
File name
http://0000004674033553/80/www.independent.co.ukextrasindybestgadgets-techbest-cloud-storage-online-review-b19678030323000221
Embedded Ole
Behaviour
SuspiciousRTF detected
Document image
Document image
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:
2026-08-10T09:35:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-08-13T05:27:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10000
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:
Gathering data
Threat name:
Win32.Exploit.CVE-2017-0199
Status:
Suspicious
First seen:
2026-08-10 16:32:53 UTC
File Type:
Document
Extracted files:
76
AV detection:
11 of 23 (47.83%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
persistence ransomware
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
Process spawned unexpected child process
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:pe_no_import_table
Description:Detect pe file that no import table
Rule name:VECT_Ransomware
Author:Mustafa Bakhit
Description:Detects activity associated with VECT ransomware. This includes registry modifications and deletions, execution of system and defense-evasion commands, suspicious API usage, mutex creation, file and memory manipulation, ransomware note generation, anti-debugging and anti-analysis techniques, and embedded cryptographic constants (SHA256) characteristic of this malware family. Designed for threat intelligence and malware detection environments.
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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