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🌐Contagious Interview

🌐 Contagious Interview is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. ??-aligned. Primary motivation: Unknown. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 54 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

54Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[Contagious Interview](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1052) is a North Korea–aligned threat group active since 2023. The group conducts both cyberespionage and financially motivated operations, including the theft of cryptocurrency and user credentials. [Contagious Interview](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1052) targets Windows, Linux, and macOS systems, with a particular focus on individuals engaged in software development and cryptocurrency-related activities. (Citation: Validin Contagious Interview North Korea ClickFix January 2025)(Citation: Esentire ContagiousInterview BeaverTail Invi

Known aliases

Contagious InterviewDeceptiveDevelopmentGwisin GangTenacious PungsanDEV#POPPERPurpleBravoTAG-121

Top techniques

T1027.010 · Command Obfuscation T1027.013 · Encrypted/Encoded File T1036 · Masquerading

All other tracked techniques

T1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 Channel T1048.003 · Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1059.004 · Unix Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1059.006 · Python T1059.007 · JavaScript T1070.004 · File Deletion T1071.003 · Mail Protocols T1082 · System Information Discovery T1083 · File and Directory Discovery T1090 · Proxy T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1204.002 · Malicious File T1204.004 · Malicious Copy and Paste T1204.005 · Malicious Library T1219.002 · Remote Desktop Software T1480 · Execution Guardrails T1497 · Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion T1543.001 · Launch Agent T1546.004 · Unix Shell Configuration Modification T1547.001 · Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1547.013 · XDG Autostart Entries T1555.001 · Keychain T1566.003 · Spearphishing via Service T1567 · Exfiltration Over Web Service T1567.002 · Exfiltration to Cloud Storage T1571 · Non-Standard Port T1573.001 · Symmetric Cryptography T1583 · Acquire Infrastructure T1583.001 · Domains T1583.003 · Virtual Private Server T1583.006 · Web Services T1585 · Establish Accounts T1585.001 · Social Media Accounts T1585.002 · Email Accounts T1587 · Develop Capabilities T1587.001 · Malware T1588.002 · Tool T1588.007 · Artificial Intelligence T1589 · Gather Victim Identity Information T1593 · Search Open Websites/Domains T1593.001 · Social Media T1593.003 · Code Repositories T1608.001 · Upload Malware T1657 · Financial Theft T1681 · Search Threat Vendor Data T1683.001 · Written Content T1683.002 · Audio-Visual Content T1684.001 · Impersonation T1685 · Disable or Modify Tools

Detection use cases (14)

Contagious Interview — node/npm spawning Python or shell to stage InvisibleFerret after fake-interview repo clone AI · profile SΣ Contagious Interview ClickFix — explorer.exe spawning shell with developer-targeted curl|iex from fake-interview lure AI · profile S Brand-Impersonation Domain Fetch Followed by User-Context Loader Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Cross-category credential-store enumeration with rapid egress to anonymizing tunnel/CDN MITRE match Cross-Platform ClickFix Paste-to-Pipe Loader (UI-Parent Shell with Decode-and-Execute Payload) MITRE match Developer package install spawning script-host with non-registry C2 within 5 minutes MITRE match Developer/Data-tooling Daemon Spawns Shell Child Seconds After POST to Runner/Exec Endpoint MITRE match Internet-Facing Service Process Spawning Unix Shell or Ingress-Tool LOLBin (Edge Zero-Day Post-Exploit) MITRE match Internet-facing service process spawns shell/LOLBin within minutes of public inbound connection — post-RCE command execution MITRE match Linux LPE chain — anomalous algif_aead/esp4/esp6/rxrpc kernel-module load followed by same-user root transition MITRE match Low-Code / AI Workflow Runtime Sandbox-Escape — Server Process Spawns Shell + Public Egress MITRE match Non-Browser Process Reads Browser Credential / Cookie SQLite Then Egresses to Public Destination Within 10 Minutes MITRE match npm Install-Time Lifecycle Hook Triggers Outbound Egress to Newly-Seen Domain (Shai-Hulud/Miasma/IronWorm pattern) MITRE match npm/yarn/pnpm Install-Hook Spawn → Credential-Store Read or Worm-Payload Drop in node_modules MITRE match