PULSE NAME
Beyond the Backdoor: How Contagious Interview Is Surgically Tampering with MetaMask Wallets.
WHITE PetrP.73 2026-02-19 Modified: 2026-03-21
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IOCs
MEDIUM VOLUME
The Contagious Interview campaign, linked to North Korean threat actors, is currently targeting IT professionals in the cryptocurrency, Web3, and AI sectors, with the intent to steal financial information and sensitive data. This threat employs a two-stage attack that starts with a JavaScript payload, confirming successful infection by sending a beacon to the attackers' command-and-control (C2) servers, and retrieving additional scripts. These secondary payloads include a Python-based malware named InvisibleFerret and two JavaScript files: one to create a remote-access backdoor and another to identify and exfiltrate sensitive files from the victim's system.
MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families
ATT&CK TECHNIQUES
MALWARE FAMILIES
InvisibleFerret
Indicators of Compromise (15 / 37 total)
All FileHash-MD5 FileHash-SHA1 FileHash-SHA256 URL domain
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
URL http://145.59.1.45:1244 2026-02-19
URL http://145.59.1.45:1244/mmz/[extension_id]_[campaign 2026-02-19
URL http://145.59.1.45:1244/mmz/nkbihfbeogaeaoehlefnkodbefgpgknn_ZU1RIOk9 2026-02-19
URL http://147.124.202.163:1243 2026-02-19
URL http://202.163.147.124:1248 2026-02-19
URL http://45.43.11.200:1244 2026-02-19
URL http://45.43.11.248:1244 2026-02-19
URL http://66.235.168.238:1244 2026-02-19
URL http://66.235.168.238:1244/t 2026-02-19
URL http://66.235.28.238:1249 2026-02-19
URL http://66.235.28.238:1249/hm 2026-02-19
URL http://67.203.7.205:1244 2026-02-19
URL http://67.203.7.205:1244/j/[campaign 2026-02-19
URL http://67.203.7.205:1244/p 2026-02-19
URL http://this.store?._state?.KeyringController?.vault 2026-02-19