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Formbook


Vendor detections: 18


Intelligence 18 IOCs YARA 25 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 5de40cb80d71ff5cabc77ed1ae871532f78c3a74823c92e0a54ed1a8fd062297
SHA3-384 hash: b2ddbb717bc052af17c31a4d3d4bd2105086aa3dc8a866240b0e98ba159ac5e4adc0b2c933c7b93f410907cce5f2402a
SHA1 hash: 8f3c9e5e3d1c1048cc685c82c628ecddad3ece8d
MD5 hash: 7fecdd814f97f76b86f7e58cd04bc9e6
humanhash: spring-sodium-wolfram-tennis
File name:Halkbank,pdf.exe
Download: download sample
Signature Formbook
File size:1'238'528 bytes
First seen:2025-08-25 10:25:29 UTC
Last seen:2025-09-05 13:07:30 UTC
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 1895460fffad9475fda0c84755ecfee1 (308 x Formbook, 52 x AgentTesla, 36 x SnakeKeylogger)
ssdeep 24576:L5EmXFtKaL4/oFe5T9yyXYfP1ijXdaJaDhtBKU8J4wpFq:LPVt/LZeJbInQRaJa9tBKUdwp
TLSH T1DB45BE027391C062FFAB91334F5AF6115BBC79260123A62F13981DB9BD705B1563EBA3
TrID 40.3% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10522/11/4)
19.3% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
17.2% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)
7.7% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13)
7.6% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
Magika pebin
Reporter cocaman
Tags:exe FormBook payment QUOTATION

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
3
# of downloads :
62
Origin country :
CH CH
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
Halkbank,pdf.7z
Verdict:
Suspicious activity
Analysis date:
2025-08-25 10:46:35 UTC
Tags:
arch-exec

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
91.7%
Tags:
autoit emotet
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Creating a window
Creating a file in the %temp% directory
Launching a process
Сreating synchronization primitives
Unauthorized injection to a system process
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
autoit microsoft_visual_cc nymeria obfuscated packed packed packer_detected threat
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
exe x32
First seen:
2025-08-21T02:34:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2025-08-21T02:34:00Z UTC
Hits:
~1000
Result
Threat name:
FormBook
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.spyw.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
Binary is likely a compiled AutoIt script file
Found API chain indicative of sandbox detection
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
Performs DNS queries to domains with low reputation
Queues an APC in another process (thread injection)
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
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)
Writes to foreign memory regions
Yara detected FormBook
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1764446 Sample: Halkbank,pdf.exe Startdate: 25/08/2025 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 31 www.copygamefi.xyz 2->31 33 www.brivilo.xyz 2->33 35 13 other IPs or domains 2->35 43 Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic 2->43 45 Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file 2->45 47 Yara detected FormBook 2->47 49 Binary is likely a compiled AutoIt script file 2->49 11 Halkbank,pdf.exe 4 2->11         started        signatures3 51 Performs DNS queries to domains with low reputation 33->51 process4 signatures5 61 Binary is likely a compiled AutoIt script file 11->61 63 Found API chain indicative of sandbox detection 11->63 65 Writes to foreign memory regions 11->65 67 2 other signatures 11->67 14 svchost.exe 11->14         started        process6 signatures7 69 Maps a DLL or memory area into another process 14->69 17 lAMhrCrqoNLn.exe 14->17 injected process8 process9 19 isoburn.exe 13 17->19         started        signatures10 53 Tries to steal Mail credentials (via file / registry access) 19->53 55 Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc) 19->55 57 Modifies the context of a thread in another process (thread injection) 19->57 59 3 other signatures 19->59 22 tdsi0pDp0tpXY.exe 19->22 injected 25 chrome.exe 19->25         started        27 firefox.exe 19->27         started        process11 dnsIp12 37 www.twinspapa81.shop 110.10.197.56, 49721, 49722, 49723 SKB-ASSKBroadbandCoLtdKR Korea Republic of 22->37 39 www.si.edu.cdn.cloudflare.net 104.18.0.107, 49701, 49702, 49703 CLOUDFLARENETUS United States 22->39 41 12 other IPs or domains 22->41 29 WerFault.exe 4 25->29         started        process13
Gathering data
Threat name:
Win32.Trojan.AutoitInject
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2025-08-21 07:47:12 UTC
File Type:
PE (Exe)
Extracted files:
28
AV detection:
20 of 24 (83.33%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Verdict:
malicious
Label(s):
formbook
Similar samples:
Result
Malware family:
formbook
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:formbook discovery rat spyware stealer trojan
Behaviour
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Program crash
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
Formbook payload
Formbook
Formbook family
Verdict:
Suspicious
Tags:
n/a
YARA:
n/a
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
5de40cb80d71ff5cabc77ed1ae871532f78c3a74823c92e0a54ed1a8fd062297
MD5 hash:
7fecdd814f97f76b86f7e58cd04bc9e6
SHA1 hash:
8f3c9e5e3d1c1048cc685c82c628ecddad3ece8d
SH256 hash:
ab600bb53740320b64bcadfe958098e62a3f571fd410d80f17ed64fa7284e23b
MD5 hash:
08bca8e0a0f827f6dbc11ce93663cc65
SHA1 hash:
70de315a424cbfede37e47ac249d6b8781325a0c
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:AutoIT_Compiled
Author:@bartblaze
Description:Identifies compiled AutoIT script (as EXE). This rule by itself does NOT necessarily mean the detected file is malicious.
Rule name:CP_AllMal_Detector
Author:DiegoAnalytics
Description:CrossPlatform All Malwares Detector: Detect PE, ELF, Mach-O, scripts, archives; overlay, obfuscation, encryption, spoofing, hiding, high entropy, network communication
Rule name:CP_Script_Inject_Detector
Author:DiegoAnalytics
Description:Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__GlobalFlags
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerHiding__Active
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerHiding__Thread
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:dgaagas
Author:Harshit
Description:Uses certutil.exe to download a file named test.txt
Rule name:golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846
Author:Justin Cornwell
Description:CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset
Rule name:MD5_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for MD5 constants
Rule name:pe_detect_tls_callbacks
Rule name:pe_no_import_table
Description:Detect pe file that no import table
Rule name:RIPEMD160_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for RIPEMD-160 constants
Rule name:SEH__vectored
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:SHA1_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA1 constants
Rule name:shellcode
Author:nex
Description:Matched shellcode byte patterns
Rule name:Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:Check for Overlay, Obfuscating, Encrypting, Spoofing, Hiding, or Entropy Technique(can create FP)

File information


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Malspam

Formbook

Executable exe 5de40cb80d71ff5cabc77ed1ae871532f78c3a74823c92e0a54ed1a8fd062297

(this sample)

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