The Take-Home Test That Runs on Your Work Laptop: Inside the AccuraSoftHire Fake Interview Campaign

2026-11-13 • Step Security •

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/accurasofthire-fake-interview-developer-machines

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AccuraSoftHire used a fabricated recruiting presence and malicious coding assignments, camera drivers, and browser-extension instructions to compromise developer machines with the PolinRider loader. StepSecurity identified nine poisoned npm packages and decoded an Ethereum wallet whose transactions exposed eight command servers used by the loader. The operation closely resembles North Korean fake-interview tradecraft, and the report separately details the FBI-attributed North Korean Binance intrusion, but JFrog found no direct link between AccuraSoftHire and Binance. Defenders should hunt for the packages, wallet-derived infrastructure, auto-running VS Code tasks, and job-alert extension, then rotate every credential accessible from affected systems.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
URL https://accurasofthire.com/noti… 2026-11-13 2026-11-13
URL https://accurasofthire.com/vsco… 2026-11-13 2026-11-13
URL https://accurasofthire.com/came… 2026-11-13 2026-11-13
EMAIL [email protected] 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
EMAIL [email protected] 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
URL https://accurasofthire.com/came… 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
URL https://accurasofthire.com/came… 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
URL https://accurasofthire.com/came… 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
URL https://accurasofthire.com/came… 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
DOMAIN accurasofthire.com 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
IPv4 103.179.142.155 2026-11-09 2026-11-13
IPv4 23.27.13.72 2026-10-18 2026-11-13
IPv4 91.218.183.174 2026-09-30 2026-11-13
IPv4 166.88.134.75 2026-09-21 2026-11-13
WALLET 0xa322E5f3D311D3080e6f0121063e9… 2026-09-17 2026-11-13
IPv4 193.247.144.38 2026-09-02 2026-11-13
IPv4 23.27.13.135 2026-09-02 2026-11-13
IPv4 166.88.73.46 2026-09-02 2026-11-13
IPv4 166.88.134.62 2026-07-28 2026-11-13

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