Analyzing a Malicious Advanced IP Scanner Google Ad Redirection | Huntress Blog

**Executive summary:** A malicious clone of Advanced IP Scanner was distributed via malvertising; the analyst demonstrates how the fake site served a Base64-encoded executable (accessible from a /download directory) and how to retrieve and decode the sample by spoofing a Google ad referrer and using tools like Postman, CyberChef, and certutil, confirming the sample via SHA256 hash but stopping short of full behavior analysis.