Scan report · about 1 month agoPublic

uniabjpoliticalsciencejournals.com.ng

147.124.214.15AS396073 · US

page delivers a ScreenConnect executable (https://uniabjpolitical…-emmental/download.php)

ScreenConnect client re-hosted off-vendor (ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi); brand impersonation (Adobe, medium); execution instructions ("downloads folder")
Engine tags
Verdict

What happened

Step by step, from what the scanner recorded.
Load 26.7 s · 8 requests
01 · Visitor opensuniabjpoliticalsciencejournals.com.ng/mein-emmental/
02 · Redirected · 1 hopSame host, another address/mein-emmental/download.html
03 · Page shown
Background Image Pagestyled as Adobe · medium
04 · File delivered · maliciousScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msiuniabjpoliticalsciencejournals.com.ngHanded over by the page, not served at the scanned address.
05 · OutcomeA program on the machineAn executable or installer was handed to the visitor under a pretext.

Dangerous — confirmed threat

Automated

Its page title claims to be Adobe, which this address is not associated with. It is listed on external threat-intelligence feeds. The file it serves was analysed and found malicious. We found strong evidence that this site is malicious — for example a phishing page, a scam, or hostile code. Treat anything it asked for (passwords, card details, codes) as exposed.

What to do

Do not enter any information or download anything. If you already did, change those passwords now and contact your bank if payment details were involved. Block or report the link to your team.

This reflects the evidence found at the time of the scan. If you believe it is a mistake, you can escalate it for analyst review.

Findings

Strongest first
MalwareMalware found in the downloaded file
ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi

We analysed the file this page delivered — it is Malicious.

Success

SHA-256 604e7a7892a8afc62d54ae64ff9cd0c70e1604054435d303046a111109c2b78a

SupportingPage delivers a remote-management installer (ScreenConnect)
https://uniabjpoliticalsciencejournals.com.ng/mein-emmental/download.php · ScreenConnect client re-hosted off-vendor (ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi); brand impersonation (Adobe, medium); execution instructions ("downloads folder")

The page's download button hands the visitor ScreenConnect, a genuine remote-control product, while presenting itself as a document. Once run it gives an outsider live control of the machine. The installer is validly signed by its real vendor, so antivirus and file-analysis engines correctly see nothing wrong with the file — the attack is the pretext, not the payload.

Analyst noteRMM abuse: the payload is a legitimate signed ScreenConnect client, so file reputation will be clean by design — do not read that as a false positive. The tenant hostname and the query parameters in the target URL identify the attacker's relay and are the IOC + the abuse-report target (report to the RMM vendor, not only to the hosting provider).

InfoBrand impersonation detected
Adobe · medium · logo shown, brand never named in the text

The page DISPLAYS a known brand's logo while carrying almost no content of its own — no article, no navigation, nothing the brand's own site would have.

Analyst noteThe brand is in the page's images, not just its words, and the page has nothing else on it. Check what the page is asking the visitor to do.

Files · 2

Stored by the engine

What you download may be live malware. Open it only in an isolated environment, and do not double-click it.

The ZIP is encrypted. Password:infected

Inside the ZIP the file carries a name the engine generated, not the one the page used.

Downloaded fileCleanThe engine stored it under a generated name

SHA-2569cc0dfa491f5eebdca6a351e699886946b0b96fdbcb7d454ea15af2fffdf6b93

Fromhxxps://uniabjpoliticalsciencejournals[.]com[.]ng/mein-emmental/

Delivered fileMaliciousScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi

SHA-256604e7a7892a8afc62d54ae64ff9cd0c70e1604054435d303046a111109c2b78a

Fromhxxps://uniabjpoliticalsciencejournals[.]com[.]ng/mein-emmental/download[.]php

Infrastructure

IP
147.124.214.15MAJESTIC-HOSTING-01 - Majestic Hosting Solutions, LLC, US · AS396073US
TLS
CN=YR1, O=Let's Encrypt, C=US · expires Oct 5, 2026
Redirects
1 hop · /mein-emmental/ → /mein-emmental/download.html
103 malicious8 suspicious

Hashes & fingerprints

Page capture

Live

Title “Background Image Page” · brand shown: Adobe (medium)

Engines

8 · time to verdict

Page

HTTP
200 · Completed
Title
Background Image Page
Load
26.65 s · 8 requests
Stack · 2HTTP/3LiteSpeed