PULSE NAME
North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign Spreads Across 5 Ecosystems, Delivering Staged RAT Payloads
WHITE Contagious Interview dylanroth7 2026-04-08 Modified: 2026-04-08
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IOCs
LOW VOLUME
We have been tracking North Korea’s Contagious Interview operation since 2024 and maintain a dedicated campaign page that now tracks more than 1,700 malicious packages linked to the activity. In this newly identified cluster, the threat actors operated under GitHub aliases including golangorg and published malicious packages across five open source ecosystems. The threat actor’s packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling (such as debug, debug-logfmt, pino-debug, baraka, license, http, libprettylogger, and openlss/func-log), while quietly functioning as malware loaders, extending Contagious Interview’s established playbook into a coordinated cross-ecosystem supply chain operation.
Indicators of Compromise (4)
All FileHash-SHA256 domain
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
FileHash-SHA256 7c5adef4b5aee7a4aa6e795a86f8b7d601618c3bc003f1326ca57d03ec7d6524 2026-04-08
FileHash-SHA256 9a541dffb7fc18dc71dbc8523ec6c3a71c224ffeb518ae3a8d7d16377aebee58 2026-04-08
FileHash-SHA256 bb2a89001410fa5a11dea6477d4f5573130261badc67fe952cfad1174c2f0edd 2026-04-08
domain self.run 2026-04-08