Contagious Interview - One Interview Away From Infection
2026-11-09 • Jfrog •
https://research.jfrog.com/post/accurasofthire-fake-interview/
JFrog uncovered AccuraSoftHire, a fabricated recruitment company that delivered malware through poisoned npm dependencies, coding assignments, and a deliberately failing camera-verification workflow. Its loader used an Ethereum transaction as a dead drop, decoded 103.179.142.155, and retrieved stages from `/0x/cls` and `/0x/ls`. The operation shares meaningful indicators and tradecraft with North Korea-associated Contagious Interview, PolinRider, and ClickFake activity, but JFrog found no link to the North Korea-attributed Binance intrusion and did not definitively attribute AccuraSoftHire.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| [email protected] | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 | |
| oleksandr.hryniuk@accurasofthir… | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 | |
| [email protected] | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 | |
| [email protected] | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 | |
| URL | http://103.179.142.155:443/0x/ls | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| URL | http://103.179.142.155:443/0x/c… | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| URL | https://accurasofthire.com/came… | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| URL | https://accurasofthire.com/came… | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| URL | https://accurasofthire.com/came… | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| URL | https://accurasofthire.com/came… | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| DOMAIN | accurasofthire.com | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| IPv4 | 103.179.142.155 | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-09 |
| WALLET | 0xa322E5f3D311D3080e6f0121063e9… | 2026-09-17 | 2026-11-09 |