North Korea Still Attacking Developers via npm

2024-08-29 Phylum

https://blog.phylum.io/north-korea-still-attacking-developers-via-npm/

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Phylum reports a renewed August 2024 wave of North Korea-aligned npm activity aimed at developers, with packages including temp-etherscan-api, ethersscan-api, telegram-con, qq-console, helmet-validate, and sass-notification. The qq-console and related packages used multi-stage obfuscated JavaScript to download Python components and a Python interpreter, then searched cryptocurrency wallet browser extensions for sensitive data and established persistence. Helmet-validate contacted ipcheck.cloud, which resolved to the same IP address previously used by mirotalk.net in fake job campaigns tied to North Korean actors. Phylum links qq-console behavior to Contagious Interview and assesses sass-notification as consistent with Moonstone Sleet tradecraft using obfuscated JavaScript, batch and PowerShell scripts, DLL payload execution, and cleanup.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
IPv4 95.164.17.24 2024-07-15 2026-04-01
DOMAIN mirotalk.net 2024-07-15 2025-02-20
IPv4 167.88.36.13 2024-08-29 2024-11-14
HASH f1f3002dec6e36e692e087626edd9b6… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH d4f3113e1e0384bcf37c39678deb196… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH 2a00838ccd08b26c7948d1dd25c33a1… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH 0110318f70072171c0edc624c8e8be3… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH f7c142178605102ee56f7e486ba68b9… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH 5e5313aaf281c8a8eed29ba2c1aaa5a… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH aec21b53ee4ae0b55f5018fc5aaa5a4… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
HASH 94da263d603bf735ab85f829b564261… 2024-08-29 2024-08-29
IPv4 45.61.158.14 2024-08-29 2024-08-29

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