`0xa44a2d2bd8e9bb14abe8b45664b14285abed8022`

0xa44a2d2bd8e9bb14abe8b45664b14285abed8022 is a smart contract address that 2 published sources report in connection with EtherHiding activity, which no published source ties to North Korea (DPRK). It is cited here from Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) and Alex Necula (LinkedIn). The earliest of those reports is dated 2026-04-15 and the most recent 2026-10-07.

DPRK link unconfirmed Alex Necula ties this contract to a ClickFix infection chain delivering infostealers, including Atomic macOS Stealer, and names no actor or state; no DPRK link is published for it. The EtherHiding tracker covers every reported EtherHiding contract and wallet, not only North Korean ones, so this value may belong to another actor.

Write transactions

Every transaction that wrote a value to this contract, newest first, as read from Polygonscan on 2026-10-20. Values are shown as the operator wrote them; an encrypted one has not been decrypted.

Date	Transaction	Sender	Value written
2026-04-15	`0x4de7b38338ba…`	`0xede997d36941…`	`2a397dfc1acc1a888eb19137b5ddc34912dda143c401d038cbac21999c6f2a18a072ae831179d32eb218f198eb3c7dd40d212e571791f2c55d04b8ec9a8beca7b1c853c1bbd91ff4d20592c57d863f1a82c1a787ddbbcc80674ac01663a0424d70dd594cb425d0ab8084f6fd60eb38a848ae937b47d005fd470351dc0e190a09`

smart contract address EtherHiding CURATED

First seen 2026-04-15 · last seen 2026-10-07

Sources

Polygon contract deployed by 0xede997d36941cf3b6f6f11e72a0393c7f19b3822, the operator of the ClickFix configuration contract 0xf55bea1fdcf1c3abb39ab92567c09ac1bff6753e, which wrote one encrypted 256-character hexadecimal configuration to it through setConfig(string) on 2026-04-15, as it did to the contract Alex Necula reported. The value was not decrypted. Found by this site's EtherHiding hunt on 2026-10-12.
Polygon transaction 0x4de7b38338ba2272d1618ab9754471c1d1fe897c4cf460f827d2e5965bba14f8 — Chollima Hunter (on-chain observation) · published 2026-04-15 · pulled 2026-10-12
As printed:

Queries a smart contract on Polygon (e.g., 0xf55Bea...753E) using the eth_call JSON-RPC method.

Notes:

Polygon contract deployed by 0xede997d36941cf3b6f6f11e72a0393c7f19b3822, the operator of the ClickFix configuration contract 0xf55bea1fdcf1c3abb39ab92567c09ac1bff6753e, which wrote one encrypted 256-character hexadecimal configuration to it through setConfig(string) on 2026-04-15, as it did to the contract Alex Necula reported. The value was not decrypted. Found by this site's EtherHiding hunt on 2026-10-12.
Hunting EtherHiding: How I Uncovered 230+ C2 Domains Hidden on the Polygon Blockchain — Alex Necula (LinkedIn) · published 2026-10-07 · pulled 2026-10-12

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