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You are currently viewing the MalwareBazaar entry for SHA256 f6cf17d3a2fe9d4e4091aba37430ceb55bd43a7c741453b50fae7bc868f32994. 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: 662


Intelligence 13 IOCs YARA 2 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: f6cf17d3a2fe9d4e4091aba37430ceb55bd43a7c741453b50fae7bc868f32994
SHA3-384 hash: 1524db12386c73edfe36e30f34710ca2cae2e244d5341b027c97dfaea4252362998a136d47530c0b4b5f675a47fead6d
SHA1 hash: d58f25f9c045f1bd0bf5aeff7248217c62465257
MD5 hash: 2ab3cb611100a1959c5cc2e1ca973d82
humanhash: king-undress-freddie-don
File name:T2628-7.xls
Download: download sample
File size:548'864 bytes
First seen:2026-07-29 05:36:01 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Excel file xls
MIME type:application/vnd.ms-excel
ssdeep 12288:YP5Eg9oEhTylNWk2lU9fO9G17072IPgl+PDhJu1KM:iqJll9fOM170qIJDhJu1K
TLSH T1AAC4220D3AD0DDBBC2538C351AD5D1AB1052BD12EF26C65B32E47B0D8739BC48166EAE
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: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: 662
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 bytesMBD002B66BB/CompObj
5262814 bytesMBD002B66BB/Package
6902 bytesMBD002B66BC/Ole
7266686 bytesWorkbook
8527 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 :
170
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
Query of malicious DNS domain
Connection attempt by exploiting the app vulnerability
Connection attempt to an infection source by exploiting the app vulnerability
Sending an HTTP GET request to an infection source by exploiting the app vulnerability
Sending a TCP request to an infection source by exploiting the app vulnerability
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
Legacy Excel File with Macro
Payload URLs
URL
File name
http://0000030000730365/22/euuc/www.timesnownews.comtechnology-sciencecloudflare-down-live-updates-chatgpt-twitter-perplexity-claude-gemini-cloudflare-com-error-challenges-latest0d0f44.phP?id=news-liveblog-153172167
Embedded Ole
Behaviour
SuspiciousRTF detected
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
CVE-2017-0199 downloader evasive exploit macros remcos
Label:
Malicious
Suspicious Score:
10/10
Score Malicious:
1%
Score Benign:
0%
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
xls
First seen:
2026-07-29T01:48:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-07-31T03:19:00Z 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:
Verdict:
inconclusive
YARA:
5 match(es)
Tags:
Office Document
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
Malware family:
VIPKeylogger
Verdict:
Malicious
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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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