17,000 URLs Reveal How ClickFix Turns Trusted Websites Into Malware Traps: Report by CTM360

ClickFix is a social engineering-based initial access technique that manipulates users into pasting malicious commands into trusted system interfaces, bypassing traditional security controls. The attack leverages compromised websites, often WordPress-based, to serve fake verification pages that trigger clipboard manipulation and user-driven command execution. Infrastructure is resilient, using blockchain (Polygon) and Telegram/Steam for dynamic domain resolution, enabling rapid rotation and evasion of blocklists. Payloads are fingerprint-gated, delivering malware like Vidar Stealer only to specific victims based on hardware and account identifiers, making sandbox analysis unreliable.

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