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Beware recruitment emails with malware infected git repos ! admin@autosquare.store scam

Andrei Telteu on November 29, 2024

New update. Read at the bottom ⏬ I received this email: from sender: admin@autosquare.store Figma design link: https://www.figma.com/design/3p...
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Ben Halpern •

Scary what AI is going to do to scams

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A.J.Zeller •

Thankyou

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A.J.Zeller •

holy shit, I just received it and checked

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Pallavi Jain •

I received the same email and clicked on the Figma link. I want to confirm if there’s any problem just because I clicked on the link, even if I didn’t interact further.

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Andrei Telteu •

I don't think the figma link is compromised in any way. It's just a detail they use to make you think it's a real project.
From what I know and what I saw in the code, the malware activates only when you start the project, when you run npm run start. Until then the car.dll malware does not run, I think.
Warning ! It is possible to run malware when you run npm install but I don't think it's the case with this one.

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Jeremiah Aworetan •

received this email few hours ago, thanks for writing this.

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timDeHof •

Thank you, I just received an email similar to these.

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Antonio Serrat •

Thanks for taking the time and share it!
I recived the same email from hr@autosquare.tech and I smell something rare about they sharing to me the design without any previous contact

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William Jing • • Edited

Thank you for sharing this. I had received the same email 22nd Nov. 11 days ago. I received from
admin@autosquare.shop

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Atomic •

I also received an email from them recently, thanks for writing this

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Chinnawat Chimdee •

I just joined dev.to for this. Thank you.
P.S. I received an email from contact@autosquare.tech; their Figma work is quite impressive.

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Faith •

People seeing recruitment emails on their mailbox being all happy that they jump into the contents without thinking!

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Priyanshu Verma •

Thanks for making me aware 👀

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Jihad Sinnaour •

Thanks for your perfect analysis!
given a public source was unusual behavior... Luckily, I used a VM.

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Andrei Telteu •

Update! The bitbucket repository has beed deleted ! The account seems to be deleted too.
And the figma file is private now.

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Saif Chowdhury •

Thanks a lot ! I got this exact mail today. I was convinced that was a legit recruitment mail. Glad I was digging deeper and found your post. Thanks for saving me !!

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victor •

Wow. I almost fell for this. Just received the email and I was wondering why a recruitment email was marked as spam

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software address •

Please i have already installed this, do you have any tip of what i can do to kill the malware

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Andrei Telteu • • Edited

I'm not sure how this malware works, i'm not a cybersecurity researcher.
I think this has the ability to download any other malware from those external network calls.
I general it's advised to do a full scan with an antivirus software, either the Windows Defender included in Windows or any of Avast, Bitdefender or Malwarebytes. All of this have a free version.

Also, I forgot to include in the article, the car.dll (or any .dll) malware only applies for Windows OS ! If you use Mac or Linux you should be safe from car.dll.
However you are not safe from the obfuscated js code. I updated the article detailing what I found about this code, the TL;DR is that it tries to steal your session cookies, saved passwords, and solana wallet, from all major browsers on both Mac and Windows.
I would recommend you to change passwords for your most important accounts and logout from any device in order to invalidate any session cookies that this malware could have stolen.