While GitHub has built-in security measures¹ to prevent users from using its infrastructure to host malware code, wily cyber attackers may be looking for ways to bypass them. We’ve seen that happen with a cryptocurrency miner² and several malicious projects.³

WhoisXML API investigated one such threat using six domains and subdomains as jump-off points and found other possibly connected artifacts, including:

• More than 90 active IP resolutions of the domains and subdomains identified as indicators of compromise (IoCs), four of which were dubbed “malicious” by various malware engines
• More than 300 possibly connected domains, as they shared the IoCs’ IP addresses, 14 of which were believed to be malware hosts
• Close to 20 additional domains that used the same strings as the IoCs with different top-level domain (TLD) extensions, one of which was deemed “malicious”

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• [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-heres-how-were-changing-our-rules-around-malware-and-software-vulnerability-research/
• [2] https://blog.avast.com/greedy-cybercriminals-host-malware-on-github
• [3] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/08/04/github-blighted-by-researcher-who-created-thousands-of-malicious-projects/