hacker-news · Crawled Aug 11, 2026
Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands
4 IoCs 1 Actors
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AI Summary
Russian nation-state threat actor UAC-0145, linked to Sandworm (APT44), is conducting a social engineering campaign targeting Ukrainian IT workers through fake job interviews. The attackers pose as recruiters from legitimate IT companies and lure victims into installing a malicious custom VPN client called SopraVPN, hosted on SourceForge. The backdoored WireGuard-based client allows attackers to execute arbitrary PowerShell commands on compromised systems by decrypting malicious scripts using modified configuration files. The malware also establishes persistence via scheduled tasks on Windows or cURL downloads on Linux to retrieve secondary payloads.
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Extracted Entities 1 found
Indicators of Compromise 4 extracted
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 25 techniques
T1012 Query Registry · Discovery T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol · Lateral Movement T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol · Exfiltration T1053.005 Scheduled Task · Execution T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1059.003 Windows Command Shell · Execution T1069.002 Domain Groups · Discovery T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs · Defense Evasion T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1071.004 DNS · Command And Control T1078.004 Cloud Accounts · Defense Evasion T1083 File and Directory Discovery · Discovery T1087.002 Domain Account · Discovery T1090 Proxy · Command And Control T1090.002 External Proxy · Command And Control T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1129 Shared Modules · Execution T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1136.002 Domain Account · Persistence T1204.002 Malicious File · Execution T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1217 Browser Information Discovery · Discovery T1485 Data Destruction · Impact T1490 Inhibit System Recovery · Impact T1566 Phishing · Initial Access