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Database Entry

Formbook

Vendor detections: 17

Intelligence 17 IOCs YARA 25 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	8081b1db0c96891c7c7c032b7cdaabf10b3e55d02f24508fc5fb97a78d57196c
SHA3-384 hash:	8911392bffcb931ed77d5ebeda3c98049720356dad224fdab21894d71eebd966ff749f370d6ca19bdc778f684e0cc031
SHA1 hash:	935ccce1dc9f9aa4a38c2dae9132cf916a1d96cb
MD5 hash:	75b0efdc276de506b204d0e7d3a47669
humanhash:	indigo-steak-indigo-october
File name:	HSBC Bank_ Payment swift copy- TT MT103.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	Formbook Create hunting rule
File size:	1'134'080 bytes
First seen:	2025-08-19 14:49:27 UTC
Last seen:	2025-09-05 12:48:53 UTC
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	0b768923437678ce375719e30b21693e (143 x Formbook, 25 x MassLogger, 22 x SnakeKeylogger)
ssdeep	24576:N5EmXFtKaL4/oFe5T9yyXYfP1ijXdac/5A4e9GLIVJwE:NPVt/LZeJbInQRacRgoEVJ
Threatray	3'292 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH	T11235AE0273C1C066FFAB96334B56F6115BBC79260123AA1F13981D7ABE701B1563E7A3
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
dhash icon	aae2f3e38383b629 (2'034 x Formbook, 1'183 x CredentialFlusher, 666 x AgentTesla)
Reporter	abuse_ch
Tags:	exe FormBook HSBC

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

HSBC Bank_ Payment swift copy- TT MT103.exe

Verdict:

No threats detected

Analysis date:

2025-08-19 15:53:03 UTC

Tags:

n/a

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/42b33cb7-2208-45ad-aeb2-32b48897bf29

Note:

ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample

Detection:

Formbook

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/22261/

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

92.5%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=68a48f848fd55a79c5294331

Tags:

phishing autoit emotet

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating a window

Creating a file in the %temp% directory

Launching a process

Сreating synchronization primitives

Launching cmd.exe command interpreter

Setting browser functions hooks

Unauthorized injection to a system process

Unauthorized injection to a browser process

Verdict:

Likely Malicious

Threat level:

7.5/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

adaptive-context autoit compiled-script fingerprint keylogger lolbin microsoft_visual_cc obfuscated packed packed packer_detected rasautou threat

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/68a493b4a4bdac9f5b9e8c48/reports/dc609543-e9ec-4257-9ddb-9bbf7a961ddd/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Trojan.Generic

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/8081b1db0c96891c7c7c032b7cdaabf10b3e55d02f24508fc5fb97a78d57196c

Malware family:

Formbook

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/2b2fd580-7721-4edd-8183-5ab02cd0c45f

Result

Threat name:

FormBook

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

troj.evad

Score:

100 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1760291

Signature

Binary is likely a compiled AutoIt script file

C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration

Found malware configuration

Initial sample is a PE file and has a suspicious name

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)

Modifies the prolog of user mode functions (user mode inline hooks)

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Queues an APC in another process (thread injection)

Sample uses process hollowing technique

Switches to a custom stack to bypass stack traces

Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements

Uses ipconfig to lookup or modify the Windows network settings

Writes to foreign memory regions

Yara detected FormBook

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Score:

100%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/8081b1db0c96891c7c7c032b7cdaabf10b3e55d02f24508fc5fb97a78d57196c

Gathering data

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/8081b1db0c96891c7c7c032b7cdaabf10b3e55d02f24508fc5fb97a78d57196c/

Threat name:

Win32.Trojan.AutoitInject

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2025-08-18 13:39:11 UTC

File Type:

PE (Exe)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

26 of 36 (72.22%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=qca3dwyms2ery7d4amvxzwvl6eft4voqf4sfbd6f7ol2pdkxdfwa._file

Verdict:

malicious

Label(s):

formbook

Formbook

2d9e008828a19f6329b2ca4abcfdefa9b124e1eb5eb3270be8b6f1f77476b3d1

Formbook

36ac663aee997b4b8da3bd498abcbdb91ca180f7afe402ce8ab166099c098cbf

Formbook

617bf6800d42409a74ae0539d3e3ffc412e6c4bb137c232159c3ca946bc0fcdd

Formbook

792bdecda049100bcddb388c74b9fa5aa21d30a167786f1e5a99091a6e77c430

Formbook

a5a3067e6a3c4e957152655df5c68ce4db77f8308feff43c53e7535031033be5

Formbook

b68dead34ddb1b8d099ea67e476e174b7081bcc293a1a4fa77afc5bce3a51a7c

Formbook

bcc41988bc560c5ddf3e58165cc25daec67e3a33529b2179868f1b4b7746db7a

Formbook

eb793e35af4458eb9591d27e4788f34f4d6babcd866879a71b307842bc68fdfb

Formbook

+ 3'282 additional samples on MalwareBazaar

Result

Malware family:

formbook

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:formbook campaign:d26z discovery rat spyware stealer trojan

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/250819-sh8rxsvxby/

Behaviour

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Program crash

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

AutoIT Executable

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

Formbook payload

Formbook

Formbook family

Verdict:

Suspicious

Tags:

n/a

YARA:

n/a

Link:

https://app.threat.zone/submission/fe4d343e-ff9a-403e-9ffe-269505080ce6

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

8081b1db0c96891c7c7c032b7cdaabf10b3e55d02f24508fc5fb97a78d57196c

MD5 hash:

75b0efdc276de506b204d0e7d3a47669

SHA1 hash:

935ccce1dc9f9aa4a38c2dae9132cf916a1d96cb

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/1ae4cb58-6d37-4363-9ac6-ab909d186271/

SH256 hash:

94e62c0049fcc25c567fc6c0a46ca9bcdb8ad215f9487fedb9f780b216108b59

MD5 hash:

1fd53afdf3001156d7e25fc9d376472e

SHA1 hash:

28a6a8df92888f4440bc1d118b8d14768d5daec3

Detections:

win_formbook_g0

win_formbook_w0

win_formbook_auto

FormBook

Windows_Trojan_Formbook

Formbook

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/1ae4cb58-6d37-4363-9ac6-ab909d186271/

Parent samples :
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Malware family:

FormBook

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/8081b1db0c96/report/overview.html

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

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/8081b1db0c96891c7c7c032b7cdaabf10b3e55d02f24508fc5fb97a78d57196c

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

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

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:	Formbook Create hunting rule
Author:	JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:	detect Formbook in memory
Reference:	internal research

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:	meth_stackstrings Create hunting rule
Author:	Willi Ballenthin

Rule name:	pe_detect_tls_callbacks Create hunting rule

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

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

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:	Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE Create hunting rule
Author:	XiAnzheng
Description:	Check for Overlay, Obfuscating, Encrypting, Spoofing, Hiding, or Entropy Technique(can create FP)

Rule name:	Windows_Trojan_Formbook Create hunting rule
Author:	@malgamy12

Rule name:	Windows_Trojan_Formbook_1112e116 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security
Reference:	https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/formbook-adopts-cab-less-approach

Rule name:	win_formbook_auto Create hunting rule
Author:	Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com
Description:	Detects win.formbook.

Rule name:	win_formbook_w0 Create hunting rule
Author:	@malgamy12

File information

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

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/22261/

BLint

The following table provides more information about this file using BLint. BLint is a Binary Linter to check the security properties, and capabilities in executables.

Findings

ID	Title	Severity
CHECK_AUTHENTICODE	Missing Authenticode	high
CHECK_DLL_CHARACTERISTICS	Missing dll Security Characteristics (HIGH_ENTROPY_VA)	high
CHECK_NX	Missing Non-Executable Memory Protection	critical

Reviews

ID	Capabilities	Evidence
AUTH_API	Manipulates User Authorization	ADVAPI32.dll::AllocateAndInitializeSid ADVAPI32.dll::CopySid ADVAPI32.dll::FreeSid ADVAPI32.dll::GetLengthSid ADVAPI32.dll::GetTokenInformation ADVAPI32.dll::GetAce
COM_BASE_API	Can Download & Execute components	ole32.dll::CLSIDFromProgID ole32.dll::CoCreateInstance ole32.dll::CoCreateInstanceEx ole32.dll::CoInitializeSecurity ole32.dll::CreateStreamOnHGlobal
MULTIMEDIA_API	Can Play Multimedia	WINMM.dll::mciSendStringW WINMM.dll::timeGetTime WINMM.dll::waveOutSetVolume
SECURITY_BASE_API	Uses Security Base API	ADVAPI32.dll::AddAce ADVAPI32.dll::AdjustTokenPrivileges ADVAPI32.dll::CheckTokenMembership ADVAPI32.dll::DuplicateTokenEx ADVAPI32.dll::GetAclInformation ADVAPI32.dll::GetSecurityDescriptorDacl
SHELL_API	Manipulates System Shell	SHELL32.dll::ShellExecuteExW SHELL32.dll::ShellExecuteW SHELL32.dll::SHFileOperationW
WIN32_PROCESS_API	Can Create Process and Threads	ADVAPI32.dll::CreateProcessAsUserW KERNEL32.dll::CreateProcessW ADVAPI32.dll::CreateProcessWithLogonW KERNEL32.dll::OpenProcess ADVAPI32.dll::OpenProcessToken ADVAPI32.dll::OpenThreadToken
WIN_BASE_API	Uses Win Base API	KERNEL32.dll::TerminateProcess KERNEL32.dll::SetSystemPowerState KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryA KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryExW KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryW KERNEL32.dll::GetDriveTypeW
WIN_BASE_EXEC_API	Can Execute other programs	KERNEL32.dll::WriteConsoleW KERNEL32.dll::ReadConsoleW KERNEL32.dll::SetStdHandle KERNEL32.dll::GetConsoleCP KERNEL32.dll::GetConsoleMode
WIN_BASE_IO_API	Can Create Files	KERNEL32.dll::CopyFileExW KERNEL32.dll::CopyFileW KERNEL32.dll::CreateDirectoryW KERNEL32.dll::CreateHardLinkW IPHLPAPI.DLL::IcmpCreateFile KERNEL32.dll::CreateFileW
WIN_BASE_USER_API	Retrieves Account Information	KERNEL32.dll::GetComputerNameW ADVAPI32.dll::GetUserNameW ADVAPI32.dll::LogonUserW ADVAPI32.dll::LookupPrivilegeValueW
WIN_NETWORK_API	Supports Windows Networking	MPR.dll::WNetAddConnection2W MPR.dll::WNetUseConnectionW
WIN_REG_API	Can Manipulate Windows Registry	ADVAPI32.dll::RegConnectRegistryW ADVAPI32.dll::RegCreateKeyExW ADVAPI32.dll::RegDeleteKeyW ADVAPI32.dll::RegOpenKeyExW ADVAPI32.dll::RegQueryValueExW ADVAPI32.dll::RegSetValueExW
WIN_USER_API	Performs GUI Actions	USER32.dll::BlockInput USER32.dll::CloseDesktop USER32.dll::CreateMenu USER32.dll::EmptyClipboard USER32.dll::FindWindowExW USER32.dll::FindWindowW

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