BlueNoroff's latest campaigns: GhostCall and GhostHire

2025-10-28 Kaspersky

https://securelist.com/bluenoroff-apt-campaigns-ghostcall-and-ghosthire/117842/

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BlueNoroff, also tracked as APT38, Sapphire Sleet, Alluring Pisces, Stardust Chollima, and TA444, is described as continuing SnatchCrypto operations against Web3 and blockchain developers, executives, venture capital targets, and technology companies. GhostCall uses Telegram outreach, investment or partnership lures, Calendly scheduling, and fake Zoom or Microsoft Teams meeting sites that replay secretly recorded victim webcam footage before prompting a malicious macOS AppleScript update or Windows ClickFix-style clipboard command. The macOS chains download staged AppleScripts, fake Zoom or Teams applications, DownTroy components, stealers, and keyloggers that collect cryptocurrency wallet data, Keychain material, DevOps and cloud secrets, notes, OpenAI API keys, browser credentials, messenger data, and Telegram artifacts. GhostHire targets Web3 developers through fake recruiting and timed coding assessments delivered by Telegram bot as ZIP files or GitHub repositories, with payloads selected by user agent and sharing structural similarities and identical malware with GhostCall. The report matters for DPRK-focused tracking because it shows BlueNoroff refining social engineering, macOS tradecraft, fake meeting infrastructure, and credential-theft capabilities around cryptocurrency and startup-sector targets.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
URL http://web071zoom.us/fix/audio-… 2025-10-28 2026-01-01
URL http://web071zoom.us/fix/audio-… 2025-10-28 2026-01-01
DOMAIN safeupload.online 2025-10-28 2026-01-01
DOMAIN web071zoom.us 2025-10-28 2026-01-01
DOMAIN real-update.xyz 2025-10-28 2025-11-29
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URL https://support.ms-live.us/regi… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://bots.autoupdate.online:… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL http://web071zoom.us/fix/audio/… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://chkactive.online/update 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
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URL https://flashserve.store/update 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
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URL https://api.flashstore.sbs/test 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://api.clearit.sbs/uploadf… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://support.ms-live.us/3016… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://cloud-server.store/upda… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://safeupload.online/uploa… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://urgent-update.cloud/upl… 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://file-server.store/update 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://api.clearit.sbs/test 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN root.security-update.xyz 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN signsafe.xyz 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN chkactive.online 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN file-server.store 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN first.system-update.xyz 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN image-support.xyz 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN filedrive.online 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
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DOMAIN cloud-server.store 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
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DOMAIN urgent-update.cloud 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN flashserve.store 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
DOMAIN bots.autoupdate.online 2025-10-28 2025-10-28
URL https://dataupload.store/upload… 2025-07-02 2025-10-28
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URL https://metamask.awaitingfor.si… 2025-06-18 2025-10-28
DOMAIN metamask.awaitingfor.site 2025-06-18 2025-10-28
DOMAIN safefor.xyz 2025-06-18 2025-10-28
DOMAIN readysafe.xyz 2025-06-18 2025-10-28
URL https://writeup.live/test 2025-04-23 2025-10-28
URL https://safeup.store/test 2025-04-23 2025-10-28
DOMAIN safeup.store 2025-04-23 2025-10-28
DOMAIN dataupload.store 2025-04-23 2025-10-28
DOMAIN writeup.live 2025-04-23 2025-10-28
URL https://download.datatabletempl… 2025-04-09 2025-10-28
DOMAIN download.datatabletemplate.xyz 2025-04-09 2025-10-28
HASH 529fe6eff1cf452680976087e2250c02 2024-11-08 2025-10-28
IPv4 104.168.214.151 2023-11-07 2025-10-28

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