Why Conventional Reputation Feeds Miss Software Supply Chain Attacks
2026-11-03 • Open Source Malware •
North Korea's Contagious Interview operations used social engineering to direct cryptocurrency, fintech, and Web3 developers to malicious coding-challenge repositories whose loaders contacted short-lived serverless infrastructure. VirusTotal missed 20 of 26 indicators evaluated for this campaign, including `stanionstudios.com`, which received zero detections across 92 engines. The broader study concludes that reputation feeds lack the package-lifecycle and developer-environment context needed to identify quiet, newly created supply-chain infrastructure.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOMAIN | holiday-themes.dev | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | status.oastify.com | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | stanionstudios.com | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | git-tanstack.com | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | x.oast.fun | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | verify.build-standards.org | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | csec-supply-chain-attack-1tcq.o… | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| HASH | ad111858f73ef39e955ea4a6cdc83d9… | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-03 |
| IPv4 | 166.88.134.62 | 2026-07-28 | 2026-11-03 |
| DOMAIN | sfrclak.com | 2026-03-30 | 2026-11-03 |
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