154.91.0.20

154.91.0.20 is an IP address that 4 published sources report in connection with EtherHiding / UNC5342 and Contagious Interview activity, which public reporting attributes to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) and Ransom-ISAC. The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-09-25 and the most recent 2026-10-11.

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
0x596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d8c7691bb BscScan Wallet, ethereum resolver wallet DEV#POPPER.js 2026-10-06 2026-10-20

ip address EtherHiding / UNC5342Contagious Interview CURATED

First seen 2026-09-25 · last seen 2026-10-11

Network

Kindfixed line
NetworkEvoxt Enterprise
Announced byAS149440 Evoxt Sdn. Bhd.
CountryUnited Kingdom

Looked up 2026-10-11 at ip-api.com. A subscriber line, as a person working from home ordinarily has.

Sources

  • Command-and-control address, on port 443, named in the remote-access stage the XCTDH signal address 0x596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d8c7691bb has pointed implants at since 2026-10-06. The 2026-10-07 XCTDH loader, decoded statically by this site, samples Ethereum blocks five to seven past each multiple of 256 for a transaction sent from an address containing 596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d, and reads that transaction's recipient as four packed pointers of four bytes of BNB Smart Chain block number and one byte of transaction index. Each pointer leads to a BSC transaction whose input carries a script between ?.? markers, XOR-encrypted under a key the previous stage names. Every version of that stage written from 2026-10-06 to the current one, BSC transaction 0x674c3adb5d9a9d64ddda8f89b4f413008888b254eecd763780123223fb5b9ac6 of 2026-10-08, names 154.91.0.20:443 and 166.0.106.182 as its servers. Decoded statically by this site on 2026-10-11 by reimplementing each layer's transform; recorded as the address the implant is pointed at, not as a host this site has observed serving anything.
    BNB Smart Chain transaction 0x674c3adb5d9a9d64ddda8f89b4f413008888b254eecd763780123223fb5b9ac6 — Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) · published 2026-10-08 · pulled 2026-10-11
  • Command-and-control address, on port 443, named in the remote-access stage the XCTDH signal address 0x596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d8c7691bb has pointed implants at since 2026-10-06. The 2026-10-07 XCTDH loader, decoded statically by this site, samples Ethereum blocks five to seven past each multiple of 256 for a transaction sent from an address containing 596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d, and reads that transaction's recipient as four packed pointers of four bytes of BNB Smart Chain block number and one byte of transaction index. Each pointer leads to a BSC transaction whose input carries a script between ?.? markers, XOR-encrypted under a key the previous stage names. Every version of that stage written from 2026-10-06 to the current one, BSC transaction 0x674c3adb5d9a9d64ddda8f89b4f413008888b254eecd763780123223fb5b9ac6 of 2026-10-08, names 154.91.0.20:443 and 166.0.106.182 as its servers. Decoded statically by this site on 2026-10-11 by reimplementing each layer's transform; recorded as the address the implant is pointed at, not as a host this site has observed serving anything.
    BNB Smart Chain transaction 0x54faddb547cf8b608758f4c2ccd89b48f4262e63168348a60e3e14f5fa465a0a — Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) · published 2026-10-06 · pulled 2026-10-11
  • Command-and-control address, on port 443, named in the remote-access stage the XCTDH signal address 0x596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d8c7691bb has pointed implants at since 2026-10-06. The 2026-10-07 XCTDH loader, decoded statically by this site, samples Ethereum blocks five to seven past each multiple of 256 for a transaction sent from an address containing 596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d, and reads that transaction's recipient as four packed pointers of four bytes of BNB Smart Chain block number and one byte of transaction index. Each pointer leads to a BSC transaction whose input carries a script between ?.? markers, XOR-encrypted under a key the previous stage names. Every version of that stage written from 2026-10-06 to the current one, BSC transaction 0x674c3adb5d9a9d64ddda8f89b4f413008888b254eecd763780123223fb5b9ac6 of 2026-10-08, names 154.91.0.20:443 and 166.0.106.182 as its servers. Decoded statically by this site on 2026-10-11 by reimplementing each layer's transform; recorded as the address the implant is pointed at, not as a host this site has observed serving anything.
    Ethereum transaction 0x1a0ecab889fcf804a2f7dd23f7b3e530690d62ee5d4854f67388b948be402eb9 — Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) · pulled 2026-10-11
  • Command-and-control address, on port 443, named in the remote-access stage the XCTDH signal address 0x596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d8c7691bb has pointed implants at since 2026-10-06. The 2026-10-07 XCTDH loader, decoded statically by this site, samples Ethereum blocks five to seven past each multiple of 256 for a transaction sent from an address containing 596dcc9fda875309ff85eba09cf5a97d, and reads that transaction's recipient as four packed pointers of four bytes of BNB Smart Chain block number and one byte of transaction index. Each pointer leads to a BSC transaction whose input carries a script between ?.? markers, XOR-encrypted under a key the previous stage names. Every version of that stage written from 2026-10-06 to the current one, BSC transaction 0x674c3adb5d9a9d64ddda8f89b4f413008888b254eecd763780123223fb5b9ac6 of 2026-10-08, names 154.91.0.20:443 and 166.0.106.182 as its servers. Decoded statically by this site on 2026-10-11 by reimplementing each layer's transform; recorded as the address the implant is pointed at, not as a host this site has observed serving anything.
    XCTDH Adopts Hash Hiding — Ransom-ISAC · published 2026-09-25 · pulled 2026-10-11

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Cited by the same report: BNB Smart Chain transaction 0x674c3adb5d9a9d64ddda8f89b4f413008888b254eecd763780123223fb5b9ac6

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Cited by the same report: Ethereum transaction 0x1a0ecab889fcf804a2f7dd23f7b3e530690d62ee5d4854f67388b948be402eb9

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