Traffic from an infection filtered in Wireshark. Annotations indicate issues such as "fake verification pages from copy/paste script" and "malicious domains hosting BOINC project servers," as well as where the TLSv1.0 traffic starts.

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   Brad (malware_traffic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:38:07 JST Brad

   From social media posts I wrote for my employer at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/unit42_kongtuke-boinc-activity-7284986403476717568-InKv/ and https://x.com/Unit42_Intel/status/1879220778173870556

   2025-01-13 (Monday): Legitimate websites infected with #KongTuke script present "verify you are human" pages that ask victims to paste PowerShell script into a Run window. Lately, this has led to infections abusing the #BOINC platform. More info at: https://bit.ly/3DU2H2R

   A #pcap from an example of the infection traffic and the associated files/artifacts are available at https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2025/01/13/index.html