Known malicious kitcriticalphishing

Fake AI-tool installers and AI-ads invitations (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Codex, Ollama)

family: fake-ai-tool-lures-2026-10

Pages that borrow the names of AI tools to get visitors to run malware or to hand over the Google or Meta Business account that runs their ads. Four page kits are tracked here. (1) Fake invitations to advertise on Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude or Meta's Muse: the page sends the visitor's IP address and location to its own back-end, checks whether that address is banned, and on 'Connect' draws a fake Google sign-in window inside the page (browser-in-the-browser) to collect the password. (2) Copies of the install pages of Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Ollama, OpenAI Codex and Kimi Code whose one-line install command points at the copy's own install.ps1. That script is the vendor's real installer with two lines added that start a hidden PowerShell window downloading further malware, so the developer still gets a working tool. (3) Copies of the 'Download Claude' page whose install command is kept encrypted in the page and is shown only after a click, in a pop-up telling the visitor to paste it into the Run box or Terminal. (4) Download pages for fake desktop apps (a budgeting app and others) whose installer is hosted on GitHub releases and whose download button reports each click to the operator's server. A match means a scan of one of these pages, a page that contacted one of the invitation kit's back-ends, or one of the altered install scripts.

Anchors

YARA ruleBiTB_AI_Ads_Invitation_Kit
SMQL queryrun
yara_rule:ClickFix_WASM_Sealed_Install_Command_Kit OR yara_rule:FakeApp_Installer_Registration_Ping_Kit OR yara_rule:InstallFix_Trojanized_Vendor_Installer_PS OR (title:"Download Claude | Claude by Anthropic" AND NOT domain:claude.com AND NOT domain:claude.ai) OR contacted_host:syncgoogleadsback-production-6100.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:syncgoogleadsback-production-f67f.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:syncgoogleadsback-production-cde6.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:syncgoogleadsback-production.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:claudeadsback-production-67c1.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:claudeadsback-production.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:chatgptadsback-production.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:museadsback-production.up.railway.app OR contacted_host:mbackend-mdye.onrender.com OR domain:setup-kimi.com OR domain:codex-install.com OR domain:budgetforge.ai

Provenance

Added: 2026-10-15 21:27
Content anchor: a YARA rule on the invitation kit's own page code (its IP-ban check, its completion check and its user-creation call to the back-end), not on any brand, so the genuine advertising pages cannot match. The search half adds three more YARA rules: the hidden ShellExecute line added to a vendor install script, the encrypted install-command block and pop-up of the fake 'Download Claude' page, and the download-click report (api4.php?method=auth&key=...&ist=<app>) of the fake-app pages. It also tracks the invitation kit's back-ends on railway[.]app and onrender[.]com, the copied 'Download Claude' title on any host other than Anthropic's, and three lure domains live in October 2026 (setup-kimi[.]com, codex-install[.]com, budgetforge[.]ai). The install-page copies answer most visitors with an empty page, and their /index page shows the vendor's genuine command; the altered install.ps1 is fetched directly. Installers for the fake apps and for trojanised Claude, Codex, Ollama and OpenClaw setups were published as GitHub release assets of one account (github[.]com/DeskPulse). The ClickFix chains of this campaign that run through ChatGPT shared chats and 'backup domain' pages are tracked in a separate hunt for their delivery panel, and the fake Cloudflare check on claudedev[.]net belongs to an older branded-verification kit.

Sightings (10)

HostScanScriptMatchWhen
www.briefing-chatgpt.comde26f48f…https://www.briefing-chatgpt.com/_next/static/chunks/543-cd1d8eda5ddb0e8d.jsyara2026-10-15 21:37
www.perplexity-beta-ads.comb287811e…https://www.perplexity-beta-ads.com/_next/static/chunks/0gxzthvvoack3.jsyara2026-10-15 21:37
www.gemini-beta-invitations.com9f0fec61…https://www.gemini-beta-invitations.com/_next/static/chunks/07_77gh-cuq~6.jsyara2026-10-15 21:37
setup-kimi.com8a9061c2…—query2026-10-15 21:30
budgetforge.ai303a0b56…—query2026-10-15 21:30
briefing-chatgpt.comde26f48f…—query2026-10-15 21:30
perplexity-beta-ads.comb287811e…—query2026-10-15 21:30
gemini-beta-invitations.com9f0fec61…—query2026-10-15 21:30
cladesktop-apps.com84d00812…—query2026-10-15 21:30
setup-kimi.comaff1d870…—query2026-10-15 21:30