Recently I was playing with VirusTotal Intelligence and while testing some dynamic behavior queries I stumbled upon this strange PE binary (MD5: 7fce12d2cc785f7066f86314836c95ec
). The file claimed to be an installer for the JXplorer 3.3.1.2, a Java-based “cross platform LDAP browser and editor” as indicated on its official web page. Why was it strange? Mostly because I did not expect an installer for a quite popular LDAP browser to create a scheduled task in order to download and execute PowerShell code from a subdomain hosted by free dynamic DNS provider:
I initially planned to keep this write-up short and focus on dissecting suspicious JXplorer binary. However, analyzing the JXplorer binary turned out to be only the first step into the world of backdoored software.