Tenacious Pungsan: A DPRK threat actor linked to Contagious Interview

2024-10-24 Datadog

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tenacious-pungsan-dprk-threat-actor-contagious-interview/

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Datadog Security Research found three malicious npm packages, passports-js, bcrypts-js, and blockscan-api, carrying obfuscated BeaverTail malware and totaling 323 downloads. The packages used namesquatting or backdoored copies of legitimate JavaScript libraries to target developers, including blockchain-related Node.js users. Deobfuscated samples matched BeaverTail behavior associated with DPRK-linked Contagious Interview activity, including theft from cryptocurrency wallets, browser caches, and login keychains, exfiltration to C2, and logic to retrieve the InvisibleFerret Python backdoor. The samples contacted 95.164.17[.]24 on port 1224 and reused Contagious Interview-style paths such as /uploads, /pdown, and /client/<integer>/<campaign ID>, with campaign IDs including 726 and another previously reported blockchain-focused identifier. Datadog links the activity to a single threat actor it calls Tenacious Pungsan, while noting the second-stage InvisibleFerret payloads were not recovered before the infrastructure was taken down.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN outlook.com 2018-09-06 2026-04-17
IPv4 95.164.17.24 2024-07-15 2026-04-01
EMAIL [email protected] 2024-10-24 2024-10-24
EMAIL [email protected] 2024-10-24 2024-10-24

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