If you’ve spent any time wandering the darker corners of GitHub—perhaps looking for malware analysis, security tools, or just out of sheer curiosity—you may have stumbled upon the term

Malware authors often bury RAT builders inside projects disguised as game cheats, premium software cracks, or pentesting utilities.

GitHub is the world's largest host of source code. While designed for legitimate software development, malicious actors frequently abuse its infrastructure for several strategic reasons:

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: A highly prevalent Trojan frequently used in phishing campaigns and distributed via malicious ZIP files or fake invoices.