North Korean Threat Actors Reveal Plans and Ops by Abusing Cyber Intel Platforms

2025-09-04 Sentinel One

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/contagious-interview-threat-actors-scout-cyber-intel-platforms-reveal-plans-and-ops/

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SentinelLABS and Validin observed North Korea-aligned Contagious Interview operators creating and using cyber intelligence platform accounts to monitor their own exposed infrastructure. The activity is tied to the ClickFix-style job seeker lure chain, where targets are directed to fake assessment sites and instructed to run commands that download malware. The actors used Gmail accounts already tracked as campaign artifacts, registered from VPN-linked IPs, and appeared to coordinate through multiple CTI sources including Validin, VirusTotal, and Maltrail, with indicators of real-time teamwork such as Slack use. Despite inspecting detection artifacts and scouting new assets before acquisition, they made only limited defensive changes and instead rapidly replaced disrupted infrastructure, supporting continued victim engagement that SentinelLABS measured at more than 230 affected individuals from January to March 2025.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN outlook.com 2018-09-06 2026-04-17
IPv4 77.247.126.189 2025-02-25 2026-02-22
IPv4 70.39.70.194 2025-02-25 2026-02-22
IPv4 194.33.45.162 2025-02-25 2026-01-21
IPv4 45.86.208.162 2025-02-25 2026-01-21
IPv4 38.170.181.10 2025-01-26 2026-01-21
HASH 4a8bfa28d46ae14e45a50e105e2d34f… 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
HASH 44ddabf5b5d601077936a130a2863a9… 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
HASH 24042a8eea9b9c20af1f7bae00296b4… 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN glitchmedic.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN paxosassessments.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN hiringassessment.net 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN hireassessment.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN quickproassess.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN motionassess.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN careerquestion.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN evaluateiq.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN screenquestion.org 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN hirelytics360.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN easyjobinterview.org 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN paxos-video-interview.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN robinhood.evalvidz.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN hiringassessment.com 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
IPv4 181.53.13.189 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
IPv4 96.62.127.126 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
IPv4 181.215.9.29 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
IPv4 89.19.58.51 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
IPv4 181.59.180.84 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
IPv4 216.24.215.231 2025-09-04 2025-09-04
DOMAIN skillquestions.com 2025-06-18 2025-09-04
DOMAIN quiz-nest.com 2025-06-18 2025-09-04
DOMAIN speakure.com 2025-06-18 2025-09-04
DOMAIN vidhirehub.com 2025-03-31 2025-09-04
DOMAIN evalassesso.com 2025-03-31 2025-09-04
DOMAIN vidassesspro.com 2025-03-31 2025-09-04
IPv4 70.32.3.15 2025-02-25 2025-09-04
DOMAIN skill-share.org 2025-02-13 2025-09-04

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