Around the World in 90 Days: State-Sponsored Actors Try ClickFix
2025-04-17 • Proofpoint •
Proofpoint observed TA427, overlapping with Kimsuky or Emerald Sleet, adding ClickFix social engineering to its North Korea affairs targeting in January and February 2025. Operators used spoofed meeting-request conversations, benign and malicious PDF lures, attacker-controlled secure-drive pages, and pop-up instructions that pushed victims to paste and run PowerShell commands. The DPRK-linked chain fetched remote PowerShell, showed a decoy questionnaire about Northeast Asia nuclear policy, and in one case continued through VBS and batch scripts to QuasarRAT. The report frames ClickFix as a cybercrime technique being adopted by state-sponsored groups, with TA427 replacing parts of its usual execution chain rather than changing its target set.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOMAIN | securedrive.fin-tech.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| DOMAIN | accounts-porfile.serveirc.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| DOMAIN | account-profile.servepics.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.servehttp.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.privatedns.org | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| IPv4 | 210.179.30.213 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| IPv4 | 115.92.4.123 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| IPv4 | 118.194.228.184 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| IPv4 | 121.179.161.231 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| IPv4 | 172.86.111.75 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| IPv4 | 38.180.157.197 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-07-01 |
| DOMAIN | bit-albania.com | 2023-08-01 | 2025-07-01 |
| HASH | 78aa2335d3e656256c50f1f2c544b32… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | 0ff9c4bba39d6f363b9efdfa6b54127… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | bfb11abb82ab4c788156df862a5cf4f… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | 07a45c7a436258aa81ed2e770a23335… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | e410ffadb3f5b6ca82cece8bce4fb37… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | 8a8c57eedca1bd03308198a87cae797… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | 18ee1393fc2b2c1d56d4d8f94efad58… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | 85db55aab78103f7c2d536ce79e923c… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | 06816634fb019b6ed276d36f414f3b3… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| HASH | f9536b1d798bee3af85b9700684b41d… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| [email protected] | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 | |
| [email protected] | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 | |
| URL | https://securedrive.fin-tech.co… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.fin-tech.co… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.fin-tech.co… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.root.sx:844… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.root.sx:844… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.fin-tech.co… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.fin-tech.co… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.root.sx:844… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://securedrive.fin-tech.co… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| URL | https://office.rsvp/fin?documen… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.networkguru.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | e-securedrive.mofa.mtomtech.co.… | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.opticalize.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive-mofa.servehttp.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | accounts-myservice.servepics.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | myaccounts-profile.servehttp.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.dob.jp | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | login-accounts.servehttp.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | ukrtelecom.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | freedrive.servehttp.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | ukrtelcom.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.netsecgroup.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | undocs.myvnc.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | drive.us-dos.securitel.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | securedrive.root.sx | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | raedom.store | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| DOMAIN | undocs.servehttp.com | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| IPv4 | 221.144.93.250 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| IPv4 | 80.66.66.197 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| IPv4 | 5.231.4.94 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| IPv4 | 14.34.85.86 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |
| IPv4 | 121.179.161.230 | 2025-04-17 | 2025-04-17 |