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A fake robot check that copies a PowerShell command

On pinnacleradio-net.edmimwa.com, Radar observed a fake verification widget attempt to copy a command, then show Windows PowerShell and paste instructions. The command was intercepted; it was never run.

On pinnacleradio-net.edmimwa.com, Radar observed a fake verification widget attempt to copy a command, then show Windows PowerShell and paste instructions. The command was intercepted; it was never run.

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01A familiar robot-check lure

The retained baseline screenshot shows an imitation reCAPTCHA-style checkbox over a dimmed page. Its appearance alone is not the decisive evidence.

02The page attempts to copy a command

After one constrained verification click, Radar intercepts the original page's clipboard write containing a PowerShell retrieval-and-execution pipeline.

03Instructions move into Windows

The next retained screenshot tells the visitor to press Win+X, choose Windows PowerShell or press I, paste with Ctrl+V, then press Enter.

04Evidence retained; execution stops here

Radar retains the command as inert review text and the instruction screenshots. It never follows the operating-system steps or runs the captured command.

Illustrated evidence sequence — not a recording of the website. No commands are run. Reduced-motion mode shows static steps.

What Radar observed

In the original isolated browser session, one constrained verification click triggered navigator.clipboard.writeText with a 119-character PowerShell command. It used Invoke-RestMethod to retrieve content from cosmical2049[.]com and pipe it to Invoke-Expression. Retained before-and-after screenshots show a robot-check lure followed by Win+X, PowerShell, Ctrl+V and Enter instructions.

Why it matters

This is a ClickFix handoff: a familiar verification prompt tries to persuade the visitor to move from a web page into an operating-system command interface. The intercepted command would retrieve remote content and pass it to an execution function if a person ran it. Radar observed the copy attempt and instructions, not payload execution or an infected device.

Observation limits

Evidence is from the 26 October scan, not a claim about the site's current state or every visitor. The clipboard attempt occurred in the original isolated page session. Request and event limits were reached, one screenshot failed, and a referenced script returned HTTP 403. Some RPC responses were withheld from page execution; the complete downstream chain remains unobserved. No command was pasted or executed.

Recommended response

Do not follow verification instructions that ask you to open Run, Terminal or PowerShell and paste a command. Close the page and report the source through your security process. Defenders can investigate the captured destination cosmical2049[.]com and consult the source report for the exact command and context. If someone already ran it, isolate the device and begin incident response; this scan does not establish execution.

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Evidence reflects the scan time. A compromised website can change or be repaired; this is not an assertion about every visitor or its current state.

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