dns1.southafricanorth.cloudapp.azure.com

dns1.southafricanorth.cloudapp.azure.com is a domain that 2 published sources report in connection with EtherHiding / UNC5342 and unclustered DPRK activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) and Sysdig. The reports are dated 2026-10-03.

EtherHiding addresses that pointed malware at this host, newest first. Dates are when the value was written on-chain, and Transaction opens the one that first wrote it; a row without one is a tie a cited report states. See the EtherHiding Tracker.

AddressTransactionTypeRoleMalware familyFirst writtenLast written
0x1a3f8e013c392d8cf6ca5049ee7f437b383f27e1 Etherscan Contract, ethereum mapping contract EtherRAT 2026-06-27 2026-06-27
0x3372a63ee825d09b4daee979513980f99c731db5 Etherscan Wallet, ethereum owner wallet EtherRAT 2026-06-27 2026-06-27
0x2dbca26addf031ada655861933d0386a39ea6427 Etherscan Wallet, ethereum owner wallet EtherRAT 2026-06-26 2026-06-26
0x8b12e09abb2e5130310b24c75b51c8afd85e8223 Etherscan Contract, ethereum mapping contract EtherRAT 2026-06-26 2026-06-26
0x277852e1c349b03c79e348018a8391bd21c412e8 Etherscan Contract, ethereum mapping contract EtherRAT 2026-06-21 2026-06-21
0x6c0bdc011f31715c4ff537aa9c6a8a141f8a6119 Etherscan Wallet, ethereum owner wallet EtherRAT 2026-06-21 2026-06-21

domain EtherHiding / UNC5342DPRK (cluster unattributed) CURATED

First seen 2026-10-03 · last seen 2026-10-03

Sources

  • Value written to the EtherRAT resolver contract 0x277852e1c349b03c79e348018a8391bd21c412e8 by operator wallet 0x6c0bdc011f31715c4ff537aa9c6a8a141f8a6119 on 2026-06-21, as recorded in the contract's setString events. This is an on-chain observation by this site, not a value carried in published reporting. The contract was found by its identical bytecode and setString event to published EtherRAT resolvers (keccak256 of runtime code 484c7fb94d7084807bf4385d4c7fe9bd768ecb92669c162fac9ab299b28f302e). An Azure cloudapp.azure.com name written by an operator of the contract, in the same pattern as other Azure-hosted EtherRAT values; the name is a free regional label and says nothing about the account behind it. The label rests on Sysdig's attribution of the EtherRAT family; one deployment of the family (The DFIR Report) ended in The Gentlemen ransomware with no nation-state named, so this entry carries low confidence and is not itself a DPRK attribution.
    EtherRAT resolver contract 0x277852e1c349b03c79e348018a8391bd21c412e8 — Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) · pulled 2026-10-03
  • Value written to the EtherRAT resolver contract 0x277852e1c349b03c79e348018a8391bd21c412e8 by operator wallet 0x6c0bdc011f31715c4ff537aa9c6a8a141f8a6119 on 2026-06-21, as recorded in the contract's setString events. This is an on-chain observation by this site, not a value carried in published reporting. The contract was found by its identical bytecode and setString event to published EtherRAT resolvers (keccak256 of runtime code 484c7fb94d7084807bf4385d4c7fe9bd768ecb92669c162fac9ab299b28f302e). An Azure cloudapp.azure.com name written by an operator of the contract, in the same pattern as other Azure-hosted EtherRAT values; the name is a free regional label and says nothing about the account behind it. The label rests on Sysdig's attribution of the EtherRAT family; one deployment of the family (The DFIR Report) ended in The Gentlemen ransomware with no nation-state named, so this entry carries low confidence and is not itself a DPRK attribution.
    EtherRAT: DPRK uses novel Ethereum implant in React2Shell attacks — Sysdig · pulled 2026-10-03

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