File name:

Wns-Employee-Handbook.pdf

Full analysis: https://app.any.run/tasks/f6af7e8c-721a-4b36-90b4-956c9e0525b2
Verdict: Malicious activity
Analysis date: March 24, 2025, 16:12:09
OS: Windows 10 Professional (build: 19044, 64 bit)
Tags:
generated-doc
qrcode
phishing
pdf-secudoc
phish-url
qr-redirect
susp-redirect
Indicators:
MIME: application/pdf
File info: PDF document, version 1.4, 1 page(s)
MD5:

11A6A96291DD541A87EDD943E2A70052

SHA1:

58F014F7F5C65DFE140A5D9F67D242F7EA07B954

SHA256:

56727DA5CFCA583B7DD69FEBC6939B981D6471E3CAC6E742B774BF2FB34BD077

SSDEEP:

3072:BHhx6X0KQ09VWWWoAbPj3ilkWeORVMKIQqwqeQksYO7jEN:BB0XTQ09VWWWZibVMKzqHCO7I

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  • MALICIOUS

    • QR code contains URL with email

      • Acrobat.exe (PID: 6372)

    • Suspicious URL found

      • Acrobat.exe (PID: 6372)

  • SUSPICIOUS

    • Detected QR code with redirect chain

      • Acrobat.exe (PID: 6372)

  • INFO

    • Creates files or folders in the user directory

      • BackgroundTransferHost.exe (PID: 4652)

    • Application launched itself

      • Acrobat.exe (PID: 6372)
      • AcroCEF.exe (PID: 7472)

    • Reads security settings of Internet Explorer

      • BackgroundTransferHost.exe (PID: 7324)
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No Malware configuration.

TRiD

.pdf | Adobe Portable Document Format (100)

EXIF

PDF

PDFVersion: 1.4
Linearized: No
PageCount: 1
TaggedPDF: Yes
Language: en-US
Title: 240d15125024b8604a5ff57bd943b3f2.html
Creator: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Producer: Skia/PDF m134
CreateDate: 2025:03:24 15:16:40+00:00
ModifyDate: 2025:03:24 15:16:40+00:00
No data.
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Total processes
152
Monitored processes
20
Malicious processes
0
Suspicious processes
0

Behavior graph

Click at the process to see the details
start acrobat.exe acrobat.exe no specs sppextcomobj.exe no specs slui.exe acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs backgroundtransferhost.exe no specs backgroundtransferhost.exe backgroundtransferhost.exe no specs backgroundtransferhost.exe no specs backgroundtransferhost.exe no specs acrocef.exe no specs slui.exe no specs

Process information

PID
CMD
Path
Indicators
Parent process
864"BackgroundTransferHost.exe" -ServerName:BackgroundTransferHost.1C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTransferHost.exe—svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Download/Upload Host
Exit code:
1
Version:
10.0.19041.3636 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\backgroundtransferhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel.appcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
896"C:\WINDOWS\System32\SLUI.exe" RuleId=3482d82e-ca2c-4e1f-8864-da0267b484b2;Action=AutoActivate;AppId=55c92734-d682-4d71-983e-d6ec3f16059f;SkuId=4de7cb65-cdf1-4de9-8ae8-e3cce27b9f2c;NotificationInterval=1440;Trigger=TimerEventC:\Windows\System32\slui.exe
SppExtComObj.Exe
User:
NETWORK SERVICE
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
SYSTEM
Description:
Windows Activation Client
Version:
10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\slui.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\advapi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\sechost.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
920C:\WINDOWS\system32\SppExtComObj.exe -EmbeddingC:\Windows\System32\SppExtComObj.Exe—svchost.exe
User:
NETWORK SERVICE
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
SYSTEM
Description:
KMS Connection Broker
Version:
10.0.19041.3996 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\sppextcomobj.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\advapi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\sechost.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
c:\windows\system32\oleaut32.dll
4608"BackgroundTransferHost.exe" -ServerName:BackgroundTransferHost.1C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTransferHost.exe—svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Download/Upload Host
Exit code:
1
Version:
10.0.19041.3636 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\backgroundtransferhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel.appcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
4652"BackgroundTransferHost.exe" -ServerName:BackgroundTransferHost.1C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTransferHost.exe
svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Download/Upload Host
Exit code:
1
Version:
10.0.19041.3636 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\backgroundtransferhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel.appcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
5640"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" --type=renderer /prefetch:1 "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Wns-Employee-Handbook.pdf"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe—Acrobat.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Integrity Level:
LOW
Description:
Adobe Acrobat
Version:
23.1.20093.0
Modules
Images
c:\program files\adobe\acrobat dc\acrobat\acrobat.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
c:\windows\system32\win32u.dll
c:\windows\system32\gdi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\gdi32full.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcp_win.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
6372"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Wns-Employee-Handbook.pdfC:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
explorer.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Adobe Acrobat
Version:
23.1.20093.0
Modules
Images
c:\program files\adobe\acrobat dc\acrobat\acrobat.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
c:\windows\system32\win32u.dll
c:\windows\system32\gdi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\gdi32full.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcp_win.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
7196"BackgroundTransferHost.exe" -ServerName:BackgroundTransferHost.1C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTransferHost.exe—svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Download/Upload Host
Exit code:
1
Version:
10.0.19041.3636 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\backgroundtransferhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel.appcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
7324"BackgroundTransferHost.exe" -ServerName:BackgroundTransferHost.1C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTransferHost.exe—svchost.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Download/Upload Host
Exit code:
1
Version:
10.0.19041.3636 (WinBuild.160101.0800)
Modules
Images
c:\windows\system32\backgroundtransferhost.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\combase.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel.appcore.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
7472"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\acrocef_1\AcroCEF.exe" --backgroundcolor=16514043C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\acrocef_1\AcroCEF.exe—Acrobat.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Integrity Level:
LOW
Description:
Adobe AcroCEF
Version:
23.1.20093.0
Modules
Images
c:\program files\adobe\acrobat dc\acrobat\acrocef_1\acrocef.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
c:\windows\system32\win32u.dll
c:\windows\system32\gdi32.dll
c:\windows\system32\gdi32full.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcp_win.dll
c:\windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll
Total events
17 414
Read events
17 270
Write events
139
Delete events
5

Modification events

(PID) Process:(6372) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Mappings\S-1-15-2-2034283098-2252572593-1072577386-2659511007-3245387615-27016815-3920691934
Operation:writeName:DisplayName
Value:
Adobe Acrobat Reader Protected Mode
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\ExitSection
Operation:writeName:bLastExitNormal
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVEntitlement
Operation:writeName:bSynchronizeOPL
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVGeneral
Operation:writeName:uLastAppLaunchTimeStamp
Value:
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVGeneral
Operation:writeName:iNumAcrobatLaunches
Value:
7
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\ToolsSearch
Operation:writeName:iSearchHintIndex
Value:
3
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\DLLInjection
Operation:writeName:bBlockDLLInjection
Value:
0
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVEntitlement
Operation:writeName:sProductGUID
Value:
4143524F4241545F475549445F4E474C5F44554D4D5900
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVEntitlement
Operation:writeName:sProductGUID
Value:
4143524F5F5245534944554500
(PID) Process:(5640) Acrobat.exeKey:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AdobeViewer
Operation:delete valueName:ProductInfoCache
Value:
Executable files
0
Suspicious files
196
Text files
10
Unknown types
0

Dropped files

PID
Process
Filename
Type
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\LOG.oldtext
MD5:2EF1F7C0782D1A46974286420D24F629
SHA256:D3A9BB7E09E1F4B0C41FF7808E930DDACF5DB3BACD98ECCF5BC7DB4863D1FCF5
5640Acrobat.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Acrobat\Files\TESTINGbinary
MD5:DC84B0D741E5BEAE8070013ADDCC8C28
SHA256:81FF65EFC4487853BDB4625559E69AB44F19E0F5EFBD6D5B2AF5E3AB267C8E06
5640Acrobat.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Adobe\Acrobat\DC\SOPHIA\Acrobat\SOPHIA.jsonbinary
MD5:837C1211E392A24D64C670DC10E8DA1B
SHA256:8013AC030684B86D754BBFBAB8A9CEC20CAA4DD9C03022715FF353DC10E14031
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\Code Cache\js\8e417e79df3bf0e9_0binary
MD5:943A28D88D47C8319487E7D46DA4E5EF
SHA256:FD52D79117C8F8D2A413E00D9BC3CB7F0F44BDF0F645B784DBEF237B6B9B26A4
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\Code Cache\js\0786087c3c360803_0binary
MD5:E9AAB9A2362F77389F95599C9BD3EB66
SHA256:D6160E7650A03DC61591A063E4051AA9FB100AAB2DF70EA568668B6D828391C7
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\LOG.old~RF10ce00.TMPtext
MD5:D012E5B4EB91B61F6E8AE2F8EC3C623E
SHA256:1BDA750084F20306722008016420E1912BA608CA8EFB9C661F7E7EFCF5E89673
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\Local Storage\leveldb\LOG.oldtext
MD5:8412AEEF2309E13FC954061D9BCEFFF4
SHA256:D062D7B5DF5F3BCB753E97AB5D1DCD9CF62058D9103DA383DBE1F482FC1D4644
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\Code Cache\js\bba29d2e6197e2f4_0binary
MD5:3A8D2534FA778F892C12B41F91FA42C2
SHA256:73D82DC5D998BEDF835118FABC7F8196E337F9DF441EA5D71CC88BE1E016127A
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\Session Storage\LOG.old~RF10d0cf.TMPtext
MD5:7383516745DEC1E86152192435F92D1F
SHA256:E22D34BBD915EEB277D4F4138D176EACE5577CF035EF7C2C80A4BC4D9B6C0E1D
7472AcroCEF.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\AcroCef\DC\Acrobat\Cache\Code Cache\js\560e9c8bff5008d8_0binary
MD5:01A7245C35857FA489661DCECE331D6A
SHA256:60EDD8DEE3002555D50D177228404729EC7566A24D73C5E35857B40639F0DF96
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HTTP(S) requests
7
TCP/UDP connections
31
DNS requests
19
Threats
0

HTTP requests

PID
Process
Method
HTTP Code
IP
URL
CN
Type
Size
Reputation
—
—
GET
200
23.48.23.140:80
http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicRooCerAut2011_2011_03_22.crl
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
6544
svchost.exe
GET
200
23.54.109.203:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBSAUQYBMq2awn1Rh6Doh%2FsBYgFV7gQUA95QNVbRTLtm8KPiGxvDl7I90VUCEAJ0LqoXyo4hxxe7H%2Fz9DKA%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
780
backgroundTaskHost.exe
GET
200
23.54.109.203:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBQ50otx%2Fh0Ztl%2Bz8SiPI7wEWVxDlQQUTiJUIBiV5uNu5g%2F6%2BrkS7QYXjzkCEAUZZSZEml49Gjh0j13P68w%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
6372
Acrobat.exe
GET
200
23.54.109.203:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBSAUQYBMq2awn1Rh6Doh%2FsBYgFV7gQUA95QNVbRTLtm8KPiGxvDl7I90VUCEAfy81yHqHeveu%2FpR5k1Jb0%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
4652
BackgroundTransferHost.exe
GET
200
23.54.109.203:80
http://ocsp.digicert.com/MFEwTzBNMEswSTAJBgUrDgMCGgUABBTrjrydRyt%2BApF3GSPypfHBxR5XtQQUs9tIpPmhxdiuNkHMEWNpYim8S8YCEAI5PUjXAkJafLQcAAsO18o%3D
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
1056
SIHClient.exe
GET
200
184.30.21.171:80
http://www.microsoft.com/pkiops/crl/Microsoft%20ECC%20Product%20Root%20Certificate%20Authority%202018.crl
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
1056
SIHClient.exe
GET
200
184.30.21.171:80
http://www.microsoft.com/pkiops/crl/Microsoft%20ECC%20Update%20Secure%20Server%20CA%202.1.crl
unknown
—
—
whitelisted
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Connections

PID
Process
IP
Domain
ASN
CN
Reputation
—
—
192.168.100.255:137
—
—
—
whitelisted
—
—
51.104.136.2:443
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
IE
whitelisted
—
—
23.48.23.140:80
crl.microsoft.com
Akamai International B.V.
DE
whitelisted
5496
MoUsoCoreWorker.exe
51.104.136.2:443
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
IE
whitelisted
4
System
192.168.100.255:138
—
—
—
whitelisted
3216
svchost.exe
40.113.110.67:443
client.wns.windows.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
NL
whitelisted
6544
svchost.exe
20.190.160.3:443
login.live.com
MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
NL
whitelisted
6544
svchost.exe
23.54.109.203:80
ocsp.digicert.com
AKAMAI-AS
DE
whitelisted
7720
AcroCEF.exe
23.35.236.137:443
geo2.adobe.com
AKAMAI-AS
DE
whitelisted
7720
AcroCEF.exe
50.16.47.176:443
p13n.adobe.io
AMAZON-AES
US
whitelisted

DNS requests

Domain
IP
Reputation
google.com
  • 142.250.181.238
whitelisted
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
  • 51.104.136.2
  • 51.124.78.146
whitelisted
crl.microsoft.com
  • 23.48.23.140
  • 23.48.23.139
  • 23.48.23.181
  • 23.48.23.138
  • 23.48.23.191
  • 23.48.23.194
  • 23.48.23.193
  • 23.48.23.141
  • 23.48.23.143
whitelisted
client.wns.windows.com
  • 40.113.110.67
whitelisted
login.live.com
  • 20.190.160.3
  • 20.190.160.65
  • 40.126.32.76
  • 20.190.160.67
  • 20.190.160.64
  • 20.190.160.17
  • 20.190.160.132
  • 20.190.160.128
whitelisted
ocsp.digicert.com
  • 23.54.109.203
whitelisted
geo2.adobe.com
  • 23.35.236.137
whitelisted
p13n.adobe.io
  • 50.16.47.176
  • 34.237.241.83
  • 54.224.241.105
  • 18.213.11.84
whitelisted
arc.msn.com
  • 20.223.36.55
whitelisted
www.bing.com
  • 104.126.37.123
  • 104.126.37.129
  • 104.126.37.131
  • 104.126.37.186
  • 104.126.37.130
  • 104.126.37.185
  • 104.126.37.137
  • 104.126.37.139
  • 104.126.37.145
whitelisted

Threats

No threats detected
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