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Formbook


Vendor detections: 14


Intelligence 14 IOCs YARA File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 98bb91d8c80f060020b8b49a0a13a1c2cd0f3f5faf1aaad75b0825511ab06fd5
SHA3-384 hash: 1984ca8ba35169120a9be7861fd3e212a3e44f7fafed92aab2f9758109766b36b55c46f9388df247a1c11a78aba2ae48
SHA1 hash: c1559ffd8dd2b43b544b98ee611fb7a4b1598b3a
MD5 hash: 61482968d92f5fced3211a1ba2393656
humanhash: papa-social-jig-earth
File name:RE,RE,PO.listedXitems.xlsx
Download: download sample
Signature Formbook
File size:848'048 bytes
First seen:2022-09-08 06:35:32 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Excel file xlsx
MIME type:application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
ssdeep 24576:cdDg0YXc5DWp2rDLI6liqTY9rOkGnulmYfD0n7:cdDg0acUp2jfpEO7QmKIn7
TLSH T186052387347EEC59D8FA46350A8426C76E6C01D7702D808972BAA010EF5E7F4E7F4B66
TrID 60.1% (.XLSX) Excel Microsoft Office Open XML Format document (34000/1/7)
30.9% (.ZIP) Open Packaging Conventions container (17500/1/4)
7.0% (.ZIP) ZIP compressed archive (4000/1)
1.7% (.PG/BIN) PrintFox/Pagefox bitmap (640x800) (1000/1)
Reporter lowmal3
Tags:CVE-2017-11882 FormBook xlsx

Office OLE Information


This malware samples appears to be an Office document. The following table provides more information about this document using oletools and oledump.

OLE dump

MalwareBazaar was able to identify 3 sections in this file using oledump:

Section IDSection sizeSection name
A11136257 bytesoLe10Native
A20 bytesguBPrbiCTwPIxQIsmZP8PeV8ng

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
311
Origin country :
n/a
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
formbook
ID:
1
File name:
RE,RE,PO.listedXitems.xlsx
Verdict:
Malicious activity
Analysis date:
2022-09-08 06:38:22 UTC
Tags:
exploit CVE-2017-11882 loader formbook

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Searching for the window
Creating a window
Searching for synchronization primitives
Launching a process
Creating a file in the %AppData% directory
Сreating synchronization primitives
Sending an HTTP GET request
Creating a process from a recently created file
Result
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
OOXML Excel File with Embedding Objects
Behaviour
BlacklistAPI detected
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
embedequation exploit shellcode
Label:
Malicious
Suspicious Score:
9.8/10
Score Malicious:
99%
Score Benign:
1%
Result
Verdict:
MALICIOUS
Details
Document With No Content
Document contains little or no semantic information.
Result
Threat name:
FormBook
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.expl.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
.NET source code contains potential unpacker
Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample
Antivirus detection for URL or domain
C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration
Found evasive API chain (may stop execution after reading information in the PEB, e.g. number of processors)
Injects a PE file into a foreign processes
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 dropped file
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Office equation editor drops PE file
Office equation editor establishes network connection
Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802)
Queues an APC in another process (thread injection)
Sample uses process hollowing technique
Shellcode detected
Sigma detected: EQNEDT32.EXE connecting to internet
Sigma detected: File Dropped By EQNEDT32EXE
Snort IDS alert for network traffic
System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit)
Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function)
Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements
Yara detected AntiVM3
Yara detected FormBook
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 signatures2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 699444 Sample: RE,RE,PO.listedXitems.xlsx Startdate: 08/09/2022 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 48 Snort IDS alert for network traffic 2->48 50 Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule) 2->50 52 Antivirus detection for URL or domain 2->52 54 15 other signatures 2->54 10 EQNEDT32.EXE 11 2->10         started        15 EXCEL.EXE 53 12 2->15         started        process3 dnsIp4 40 185.216.71.186, 49173, 80 CLOUDCOMPUTINGDE Germany 10->40 32 C:\Users\user\...\jtujxfhtyjfytcjf.exe, PE32 10->32 dropped 34 C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\...\sand[1].exe, PE32 10->34 dropped 72 Office equation editor establishes network connection 10->72 74 Office equation editor starts processes (likely CVE 2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802) 10->74 17 jtujxfhtyjfytcjf.exe 1 5 10->17         started        36 C:\Users\...\~$RE,RE,PO.listedXitems.xlsx, data 15->36 dropped file5 signatures6 process7 signatures8 42 Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file 17->42 44 Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements 17->44 46 Injects a PE file into a foreign processes 17->46 20 jtujxfhtyjfytcjf.exe 17->20         started        process9 signatures10 56 Modifies the context of a thread in another process (thread injection) 20->56 58 Maps a DLL or memory area into another process 20->58 60 Sample uses process hollowing technique 20->60 62 Queues an APC in another process (thread injection) 20->62 23 explorer.exe 20->23 injected process11 dnsIp12 38 www.avocadotaco.com 23->38 64 System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit) 23->64 27 chkdsk.exe 23->27         started        signatures13 process14 signatures15 66 Modifies the context of a thread in another process (thread injection) 27->66 68 Maps a DLL or memory area into another process 27->68 70 Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements 27->70 30 cmd.exe 27->30         started        process16
Threat name:
Document-OLE.Exploit.CVE-2017-11882
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2022-09-07 00:26:54 UTC
File Type:
Document
Extracted files:
16
AV detection:
17 of 26 (65.38%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
formbook
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:formbook campaign:ng04 rat spyware stealer trojan
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
Launches Equation Editor
Modifies Internet Explorer settings
Modifies registry class
Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
Loads dropped DLL
Blocklisted process makes network request
Downloads MZ/PE file
Executes dropped EXE
Formbook payload
Formbook
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File information


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

Malspam

Formbook

Excel file xlsx 98bb91d8c80f060020b8b49a0a13a1c2cd0f3f5faf1aaad75b0825511ab06fd5

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via e-mail attachment

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