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150.40.98.42

150.40.98.42 is an IP address that 2 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 2026-10-12.

On-chain links

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.

ip address EtherHiding / UNC5342Contagious Interview CURATED

First seen 2026-09-25 · last seen 2026-10-12

Network

Looked up 2026-10-12 at ip-api.com. A subscriber line, as a person working from home ordinarily has.

Sources

• Command-and-control IP decoded from recipient address 0x9628622a00509628622a005000ff723d148ad8a3, which the watchlisted XCTDH signal wallet 0x33ff3edaf55a8e03dcbc7cb40d498a49cd499891 began paying on 2026-10-12, replacing 136.0.7.231. Read with the encoding Ransom-ISAC published for this wallet: the first four bytes are the IP and the next two the port, here 80 for both endpoints. This is an on-chain observation by this site, made after the report was published, and it is recorded as the address the implant is pointed at, not as a host this site has observed serving anything.

  Ethereum transaction 0x78fe7eac4429d983132038be8f447c8cebb891eec4dc28cb9e14b42519a8d03e — Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) · pulled 2026-10-12

• Command-and-control IP decoded from recipient address 0x9628622a00509628622a005000ff723d148ad8a3, which the watchlisted XCTDH signal wallet 0x33ff3edaf55a8e03dcbc7cb40d498a49cd499891 began paying on 2026-10-12, replacing 136.0.7.231. Read with the encoding Ransom-ISAC published for this wallet: the first four bytes are the IP and the next two the port, here 80 for both endpoints. This is an on-chain observation by this site, made after the report was published, and it is 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 2026-10-12

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