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Database Entry

Formbook

Vendor detections: 13

Intelligence 13 IOCs YARA 16 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba
SHA3-384 hash:	95c3f5ad293dccd4429465077164232c85b4c106b8d17c9d4e820d9ebc9aee3e89f8030c498e60664c8b0b21c3273399
SHA1 hash:	76329a85359cefc138133f343ae2f225c1046b75
MD5 hash:	4ba28a75679c62df2342ccef16707ce2
humanhash:	glucose-xray-fanta-white
File name:	goodthingsforbetterforme.hta
Download:	download sample
Signature	Formbook Create hunting rule
File size:	286'817 bytes
First seen:	2026-04-15 11:19:00 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	hta
MIME type:	text/csv
ssdeep	768:tSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGmSGD:1L
Threatray	72 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH	T1DD54AB8D7E506E85BC1D8A6BA331CC28647917F6762F70CE540A23E66D417C0DFDAC2A
Magika	javascript
Reporter	abuse_ch
Tags:	FormBook hta

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

No detections

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.VBS.Starter.519.UNOFFICIAL

Verdict:

Clean

Score:

82.2%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=69df74c8f68adfe1003a069e

Tags:

n/a

Result

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

HTA File - Malicious

Link:

https://app.docguard.net/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba/results/dashboard

Behaviour

BlacklistAPI detected

Verdict:

Suspicious

Threat level:

5/10

Confidence:

100%

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/69df74a15ea31bc68a2ca9e9/reports/23fd6ad5-e423-409d-878f-cdc9bbf52328/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

HEUR_Trojan_Script_Generic

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

hta

First seen:

2026-04-15T08:31:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-04-16T06:50:00Z UTC

Hits:

~10

Detections:

Trojan-Downloader.Agent.HTTP.C&C Trojan.JS.SAgent.sb HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba/results?tab=lookup

Result

Threat name:

FormBook

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

troj.spyw.evad

Score:

100 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1898655

Signature

Bypasses PowerShell execution policy

Contains functionality to check if a debugger is running (CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent)

Creates processes via WMI

Injects a PE file into a foreign processes

Joe Sandbox ML detected suspicious sample

Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)

Maps a DLL or memory area into another process

Modifies the context of a thread in another process (thread injection)

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Queues an APC in another process (thread injection)

Sigma detected: Suspicious MSHTA Child Process

Suspicious powershell command line found

Switches to a custom stack to bypass stack traces

Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc)

Tries to steal Mail credentials (via file / registry access)

Unusual module load detection (module proxying)

Writes to foreign memory regions

Yara detected FormBook

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Score:

96%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

SCRIPT

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba

Gathering data

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba/

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat:

Trojan.JS.SAgent

Link:

https://tip.neiki.dev/file/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba

Threat name:

Script-JS.Trojan.Heuristic

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-04-14 09:00:44 UTC

File Type:

Text (HTML)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

5 of 36 (13.89%)

Threat level:

2/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=a4qadqlmazr3vlx6g5aukozirpyt6ohj7l2du2j7vy5624fg365a._file

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

10/10

Tags:

discovery execution

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260415-nf1lbacw5n/

Behaviour

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Badlisted process makes network request

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Process spawned unexpected child process

Malware family:

FormBook

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/072001c16c06/report/overview.html

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

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

0.99

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba

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:	CP_Script_Inject_Detector Create hunting rule
Author:	DiegoAnalytics
Description:	Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__GlobalFlags Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DebuggerHiding__Active Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DebuggerHiding__Thread Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DetectEncryptedVariants Create hunting rule
Author:	Zinyth
Description:	Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded

Rule name:	dgaagas Create hunting rule
Author:	Harshit
Description:	Uses certutil.exe to download a file named test.txt

Rule name:	golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846 Create hunting rule
Author:	Justin Cornwell
Description:	CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset

Rule name:	MD5_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for MD5 constants

Rule name:	pe_no_import_table Create hunting rule
Description:	Detect pe file that no import table

Rule name:	RIPEMD160_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for RIPEMD-160 constants

Rule name:	SEH__vectored Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	SHA1_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for SHA1 constants

Rule name:	shellcode Create hunting rule
Author:	nex
Description:	Matched shellcode byte patterns

Rule name:	Sus_CMD_Powershell_Usage Create hunting rule
Author:	XiAnzheng
Description:	May Contain(Obfuscated or no) Powershell or CMD Command that can be abused by threat actor(can create FP)

Rule name:	TH_Win_ETW_Bypass_2025_CYFARE Create hunting rule
Author:	CYFARE
Description:	Windows ETW Bypass Detection Rule - 2025
Reference:	https://cyfare.net/

File information

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

Web download

Formbook

hta 072001c16c0663baaefe3741453b288bf13f38e9faf43a693fae3bed70a6dfba

(this sample)

URLhaus

https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/url/3822301/

Delivery method

Distributed via web download

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