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
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 protected] | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-13 | |
| [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 |