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PlugX: Bad guy disguises as an msi file

By Ngô Thành Văn

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I. Overview

II. Analysis

1. Locate suspicious files

Use msitool to extract msidump -s -t mal.msi . In File.idt , we can see that there are 3 embed file. These files are extracted to %LOCALAPPDATA\kjnBsLsJo\

Upon running, the program opens an pdf file called Meeting Invitation.pdf 2. DLL Side-loading technique

security.dll export 3 functions…

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