Ids.xls

Marcus laughed at himself. A spreadsheet that tried to give him errands. But the laugh thinned when another row matched the photo tucked into his wallet—the small, cut photograph of a woman he hadn't seen in fourteen years. He tapped the ID and a new sheet unfolded, a single cell containing an address and a single sentence: Meet me where we forgot to say goodbye.

Although .xls files can contain VBA macros, attackers often rename malicious macro files to ids.xls to trick users. A phishing email with the subject "Updated ID List" and an attachment ids.xls is a classic social engineering tactic. Once the user enables macros, ransomware or keyloggers are deployed. ids.xls