GCVE-110-OSM-2025-450

Advisory PublishedCVSS 8.8/10

Vulnetix · Advisory published August 1, 2025

DPRK Contagious Interview campaign: fake take-home coding assignment repository containing base64-encoded C2 URLs in server/config/.config.env, consistent with the config-file-c2 campaign pattern used to deliver secondary payloads to job candidates. Malicious payload found in: server/config/.config.env Base64 encoded: aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubnBvaW50LmlvL2U2YTZiZmI5N2EyOTQxMTU2Nzdk (DEV_API_KEY) and aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubnBvaW50LmlvLzhkZjY1OWZkMDA5YjVhZjkwZDM1 (DEV_API_REQ) Decoded C2 URLs: https://api.npoint.io/e6a6bfb97a294115677d and https://api.npoint.io/8df659fd009b5af90d35 Used as C2 configuration server for malware delivery in a fake job-interview take-home test repository.

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-506Embedded Malicious Code

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1

8.8/10

High · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
unknown		all (affected)	—

References

Malicious repository: https://github.com/janhesters/scam-be-careful

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