Lazarus ‘Operation In(ter)ception’ Targets macOS Users Dreaming of Jobs in Crypto

2022-09-26 • Sentinel One •

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Lazarus continued Operation In(ter)ception against cryptocurrency-sector targets by shifting macOS job-lure decoys from Coinbase-themed vacancies to Crypto.com positions. The Crypto.com variant used a Mach-O first-stage dropper that created a WifiPreference directory, installed LaunchAgent persistence at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.wifianalyticsagent.plist, opened a decoy job PDF, and launched a staged application bundle. The second stage extracted and ran wifianalyticsagent, a downloader configured to contact market.contradecapital[.]com and write a later payload as WifiCloudWidget, although the C2 was offline during analysis. The campaign matters because it shows a long-running Lazarus pattern of using recruiting lures against cryptocurrency exchange personnel, extending earlier AppleJeus and Operation Dream Job tradecraft onto macOS systems.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN concrecapital.com 2022-09-26 2023-10-04
HASH 65b7091af6279cf0e426a7b9bdc4591… 2022-09-26 2022-09-26
HASH 99430d805aa11ccb157ae9b44f77b63… 2022-09-26 2022-09-26
HASH fb1e0719a35635aa882fe5545d154f2… 2022-09-26 2022-09-26
HASH d050d387b0754e97d9feef87e95cb19… 2022-09-26 2022-09-26
DOMAIN market.contradecapital.com 2022-09-26 2022-09-26

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