Lazarus Group Enhances Malware with New OtterCookie Payload Delivery Technique

2025-07-30 Gbhackers

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The Lazarus Group’s Contagious Interview campaign is described as evolving its payload delivery for BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie across multiple malicious projects. The analyzed code uses external requests, URL-splitting, Vercel-hosted lure content, axios-based communication, eval-style execution paths, and try/catch error handling to retrieve and run payloads while frustrating static detection. Infrastructure and artifacts cited include fashdefi[.]store on port 6168, bujey[.]store, cdn-static-server[.]vercel[.]app, chainlink-api-v3[.]cloud, a Bitbucket repository, and project/package names tied to malicious delivery. The findings matter because the delivery logic is changing quickly while preserving the campaign’s basic modus operandi, creating pressure on defenses that rely mainly on direct code signatures or pattern matching.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN chainlink-api-v3.cloud 2025-04-11 2026-02-19
IPv4 107.189.24.80 2025-07-30 2026-01-21
IPv4 144.172.96.35 2025-05-30 2025-10-16
IPv4 135.181.123.177 2025-04-11 2025-10-16
URL http://fashdefi.store:6168/defy… 2025-07-30 2025-10-10
DOMAIN fashdefi.store 2025-07-30 2025-10-10
HASH 41ee7ddb2be173686dc3a73a49b4e93… 2025-07-30 2025-07-30
URL http://bujey.store:6168/defy/v7 2025-07-30 2025-07-30
URL https://cdn-static-server.verce… 2025-07-30 2025-07-30
DOMAIN bujey.store 2025-07-30 2025-07-30
HASH 56e15ef3b5e5f169fc063f8d3e88288e 2025-04-11 2025-07-30
URL http://chainlink-api-v3.cloud/a… 2025-04-11 2025-07-30

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