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Formbook


Vendor detections: 16


Intelligence 16 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 5762f2a4287e3015b2264f5b59c2e34caffa9ce95e1f282f48b72250b6abc435
SHA3-384 hash: ec3dacc4194cd99967c52c5e5995405d35511412e112be7b17aff01e4ad99e1d2f4f2edb556b0593425b5348b4800f5f
SHA1 hash: 1c1ff4837525510e7c60635b6495fcab47e1ff3f
MD5 hash: d09741a5ad74dc363c312646924348f4
humanhash: bacon-purple-iowa-idaho
File name:Payment Advise REF A4p2bqoCL7YR.docx
Download: download sample
Signature Formbook
File size:595'568 bytes
First seen:2026-02-03 06:53:38 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Word file docx
MIME type:application/octet-stream
ssdeep 12288:4uHgnDhA4F9WKLo4mgFJDQPw611ykXr5qpVVftUY/xcM6T6O:42gdrFt1mwuukrsBfeYqJ
TLSH T1EFC401B30EDE3C3AC82D40FBA087747239556D86B6B63A05102663EDED1179E66061FF
TrID 52.2% (.DOCX) Word Microsoft Office Open XML Format document (23500/1/4)
38.8% (.ZIP) Open Packaging Conventions container (17500/1/4)
8.8% (.ZIP) ZIP compressed archive (4000/1)
Magika docx
Reporter lowmal3
Tags:CVE-2017-11882 docx FormBook

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
127
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware configuration found for:
MSO
Details
MSO
extracted OLE packages, if they are present within the input OOXML document
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
Payment Advise REF A4p2bqoCL7YR.docx
Verdict:
No threats detected
Analysis date:
2026-02-03 06:53:49 UTC
Tags:
arch-doc

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Legit
File type:
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Has a screenshot:
False
Contains macros:
False
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
70%
Tags:
shell sage
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Launching the default Windows debugger (dwwin.exe)
DNS request
Сreating synchronization primitives
Creating a file in the %temp% directory
Changing the Zone.Identifier stream
Searching for synchronization primitives
Launching a process
Creating a window
Creating a process with a hidden window
Loading a suspicious library
Running batch commands by exploiting the app vulnerability
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
RTF File
Behaviour
BlacklistAPI detected
Verdict:
Suspicious
Threat level:
  5/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
zusy
Label:
Benign
Suspicious Score:
4/10
Score Malicious:
5%
Score Benign:
95%
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
docx
First seen:
2026-02-03T00:49:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-02-03T17:40:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Gathering data
Threat name:
Document-RTF.Exploit.CVE-2017-11882
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-02-03 06:54:53 UTC
File Type:
Document
Extracted files:
73
AV detection:
16 of 38 (42.11%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Verdict:
malicious
Label(s):
formbook
Similar samples:
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  1/10
Tags:
n/a
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
NTFS ADS
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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YARA Signatures


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Rule name:Embedded_RTF_File
Author:Nicholas Dhaeyer - @DhaeyerWolf
Description:Related to CVE-2023-36884. Hunts for any zip-like archive (eg. office documents) that have an embedded .rtf file, based on the '.rtf' extension of the file.
Rule name:FreddyBearDropper
Author:Dwarozh Hoshiar
Description:Freddy Bear Dropper is dropping a malware through base63 encoded powershell scrip.
Rule name:MAL_RTF_Embedded_OLE_PE
Author:Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:Detects a suspicious string often used in PE files in a hex encoded object stream
Reference:https://www.nextron-systems.com/2018/01/22/creating-yara-rules-detect-embedded-exe-files-ole-objects/
Rule name:SUSP_INDICATOR_RTF_MalVer_Objects
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects RTF documents with non-standard version and embedding one of the object mostly observed in exploit (e.g. CVE-2017-11882) documents.
Reference:https://github.com/ditekshen/detection
Rule name:telebot_framework
Author:vietdx.mb
Rule name:vmdetect
Author:nex
Description:Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

File information


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

Malspam

Formbook

Word file docx 5762f2a4287e3015b2264f5b59c2e34caffa9ce95e1f282f48b72250b6abc435

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via e-mail attachment

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