Scan report · 2 days agoPublic

ashland-energy.com

172.93.106.214AS23470 · US
Engine tags
Verdict

Dangerous — confirmed threat

Automated

It shows Adobe's logo and mentions Adobe in its text, on an address Adobe does not own. Its own script hands what you type to telegram — a route attackers use to collect stolen details. It is listed on external threat-intelligence feeds. 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.

What happened

Step by step, from what the scanner recorded.
Load 23.5 s · 12 requests
01 · Visitor opensashland-energy.com/aa/
02 · Page shown
PDF Viewerstyled as Adobe · medium
03 · Data sent toapi.telegram.org/bot<redacted>/...
04 · File delivered · suspiciousScreenConnect.ClientSetup.execleaningbyme.screenconnect.comHanded over by the page, not served at the scanned address.
05 · OutcomeRemote control of the machineA legitimate remote-management tool, enrolled into the attacker's tenant. The tenant is the takedown target.

Findings

Strongest first
Suspicious fileSuspicious content in the downloaded file
ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe

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

Success

SHA-256 5cec6bb77f14fe6643206ee8a9e4a2717fd070f61d62f34ec320508c2b875ccf

StrongExfiltration endpoint detected
telegram: api.telegram.org/bot<redacted>/...

The page's own script holds the address of a service phishing kits use to receive what they collect — a Telegram bot, a Discord webhook or a request-catcher — and hands it what the visitor types. Legitimate sites do not send visitor or form data to these. No request was observed: the kit only sends after the visitor submits.

Analyst noteDefinitive endpoint (Telegram/Discord/request-proxy), READ OUT OF THE PAGE'S SCRIPT rather than seen on the wire — no request was watched, because the kit sends only after the visitor submits. Capture it for an IOC/takedown and read what the script posts to it before calling it credential theft.

StrongThe delivered file installs a remote-management tool (ScreenConnect)
ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe

The file this page handed over is the ScreenConnect installer itself ("ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe"). Remote-management tools are legitimate software; what makes this an attack is that the visitor was given one under a different pretext, so the attacker ends up with remote control of the machine.

Analyst noteWe read this off the file the page handed over, not off the page: what the visitor was promised and what they received are different programs. ⚠️ The installer itself may well be signed and analyse Clean, because it IS the real product; the abuse is the pretext and the tenant it enrols into. Check that tenant before assuming it is not yours.

SupportingPage hands the visitor a remote-access installer (ScreenConnect)
https://cleaningbyme.screenconnect.com/Bin/ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe?e=Access&y=Guest&c=BZ&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=

The page's own script names an installer for ScreenConnect, a legitimate remote-management tool, hosted on a different domain from the page. Attackers use these tools because they are signed, widely trusted and give full remote control once installed — the victim is asked to run support software, not malware.

Analyst noteThe URL was read from an inline script, so it is what the page INTENDS to deliver — a download may not have been observed. Check who operates the instance in the URL, and treat a remote-access tool offered by an unrelated lure page as a compromise attempt.

SupportingPage delivers a remote-management installer (ScreenConnect)
https://cleaningbyme.screenconnect.com/Bin/ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe?e=Access&y=Guest&c=BZ&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c= · brand impersonation (Adobe, medium); presented as "pdf_Reader_en_install.msi", delivers "ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe"; 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 named only in body 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.

File

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.

Delivered fileSuspiciousScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe

SHA-2565cec6bb77f14fe6643206ee8a9e4a2717fd070f61d62f34ec320508c2b875ccf

Fromhxxps://cleaningbyme[.]screenconnect[.]com/Bin/ScreenConnect[.]ClientSetup[.]exe?e=Access&y=Guest&c=BZ&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=

Infrastructure

IP
172.93.106.214RELIABLESITE - ReliableSite.Net LLC, US · AS23470US
TLS
CN=YR1, O=Let's Encrypt, C=US · expires Jan 3, 2027

WHOIS

Registrar
Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC
Created
Feb 9, 2022
Expires
Feb 9, 2027
Nameservers
rs1.ultrahostghana.netrs2.ultrahostghana.net
Related scans · 105
2 confirmed bad

Hashes & fingerprints

Page capture

Live

Title “PDF Viewer” · brand shown: Adobe (medium)

Engines

8 · time to verdict

Page

HTTP
200 · Completed
Title
PDF Viewer
Load
23.47 s · 12 requests
Stack · 3Apache HTTP ServerCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare