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Sign UpAnyone know what this is? mark @programming.dev to [email protected] ยท
Thereโs this weird github repository
https://github.com/OOOO00000000OOOO/OOOO00000000OOOO
I noticed there was someone attempting to proxy to this repository on my site, causing it to show up in the logs. It was detected as spam but this repo doesnโt look like itโs built by some normal spammy company. The owner has gone through great lengths to try to stay anonymous. And I canโt make out what the repo is or what itโs for. Does anyone know or have any ideas?
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urushitan ๆผใใ @kakera.kintsugi.moe
Idk but I found this
I also found this https://ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.carrd.co/
This is almost certainly a way to use github as a backup system, but itโs also the output of someone who does alot with white/black/grey imagery, glitch art, and is OBSESSED with symmetry as other commenters have said
This appears to be their social media presence:
http://twitter.com/WHITEBALACLAVA
http://instagr.am/WHITE_BALACLAVA
http://fb.com/1453261601638473
http://youtube.com/channel/UCCLaIxZrTWkBhp_kWXUwfTQ
http://soundcloud.com/WBALACLAVA ยท
http://i.imgbox.com/wuBm89hW.png
http://youtube.com/channel/UC-bPHywwCRhyM61m8cp-zbg/VIDEOS
http://instagr.am/PU.DEHCTIP_AVALCALAB.ETIHW
http://twitter.com/AVALCALAB_ETIHW
http://twitter.com/ERISED_TIFENEB
http://youtube.com/channel/UCLLr-AXjqxUHn0eSssph8cg
MonkderVierte @lemmy.zip
Most of the links donโt work anymore, so they probably saw this and felt doxed.
urushitan ๆผใใ @kakera.kintsugi.moe
they actually didnโt when I grabbed them either but I kept them for posterity. Important to note some of these things are almost 10 years old, so thereโs certainly the rot of not maintaining them, free services pruning, etc. That being said, itโs likely why they duplicate their 7GB backup repo all over the placeMonkeMischief @lemmy.today
Oh boy I would not be surprised if there was some kinda ARG buried in all this lol. felsiq @piefed.zip English
I donโt know what their vibe is but I love it, we need more people like this in the world
hypnicjerk @piefed.social English
i wish i were a tenth this fucking fearlessly coolmark @programming.dev OP
๐ what is this personโs goal in life?
urushitan ๆผใใ @kakera.kintsugi.moe
Their goal? Canโt say. They clearly have a drive to make art, especially mathematical fractal binary minimalist art. Whether they also are actually producing malware or are just trying to piggyback as many services as possible to archive and keep their stuff online is another question. The vast majority of what I saw in my quick recon of their online presence was mostly glitch art/unicode/ascii art, blender stuff, fractals, web based d3 animations, that sort of thing. That being said, as you said, they appear to have gone to great lengths to be anonymous, Iโve only found a couple of raw IPs in there that mirror their stuff.
That being said, it seems they also clone their backups to anyone who hosts a free forgejo/gitea instance:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO๊จะฏO.๊จะฏฦแบฦแกOฯฝ CODEBERG.ORG/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOO\MOฯฝ.แบUHฦง๊จAแก DAGSHUB.COM/OOOO OOOO\u\MOฯฝ.ฦแกOฯฝฦแกOHะฏ.ฦแกOฯฝ CODE.RHODECODE.COM/u/OOOO ooooโฝ\TH.ะฏฦง.TI๊จ GIT.SR.HT/~oooo OOOO๊จะฏO.๊จUแบATOะ NOTABUG.ORG/OOOO O\000ิ:แ4.111.78.เจ81 185.87.111.46:3000/O O\HฯฝฦT.Tฦ๊จฦแบ.MUTะฦ๊จA.TI๊จ GIT.AGENTUM.BEGET.TECH/O OแกI.O๊จ.แบA๊ฐ๊จะAแกฦMUฦง.TI๊จ GIT.SUMEDANGKAB.GO.ID/O OOOOฦTIฦง.ฦงฦOแฦงIฦงIHT.TI๊จ GIT.THISISJOES.SITE/OOOO O\Uฦ.ะฏฦ๊จะIแงแงฦ.TI๊จ GIT.ELLINGER.EU/O O\Hฦง.1แกI๊ผ.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.PID1.SH/O Oแงะ.ะฦะฏฦOแบะฏฦIVIแงO.TI๊จ GIT.OLIVIERBOEREN.NL/O OฦM.Y๊จOแงOะYฦง.๊จะOฦแ๊ฐฦ.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.EKJEONG.SYNOLOGY.ME/O O๐ชฝฯฝ.ฯฝฦVOะฏOแบ๊ฐฦะฦแก๐ชฝ.TI๊จ GIT.ZDENEKBOROVEC.CZ/O O๊ผแ.ฦงUแง๊ผTฯฝฦะะOฯฝ.TI๊จ GIT.CONNECTPLUS.JP/O O\YะA๊ผMOฯฝ.๊ฐแบฦ.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.EBK.COMPANY/O O\MOฯฝ.ฦง๊ผOVฦแกUA๊ฐA.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.AKAUDEVOPS.COM/O O\ZYX.VฦแกฦแงแบATะฏO๊ผ.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.PORTABLEDEV.XYZ/O O\MOฯฝ.ฦ๊จAMAIV.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.VIAMAGE.COM/O O\Tฦะ.OTYะฏฯฝ.TI๊จ GIT.CRYTO.NET/O O\Vฦแก.ฦง๊ผAMO.TI๊จ GIT.OMAPS.DEV/O O\MOฯฝ.ะฦMMฦH-ะAV.TI๊จ GIT.VAN-HEMMEN.COM/O O\Uฦ.ะฦVฦงฦะ.TI๊จ GIT.NESVEN.EU/O O\MOฯฝ.แกAฦะฏแกHT๊ปI๊ป.AฦTI๊จ GITEA.FIFTHDREAD.COM/O
mark @programming.dev OP
Yeah. Just found that theyโre using this email address: [email protected]. murena.io gives them 1GB of storage for free. Like you said, they appear to be attempting to keep a backup of a lot of data using third-party services, Iโm guessing so that, in theory, even after their death, this data will be availableโฆ forever?
lad @programming.dev English
Their repositories are really something, and the commits seem to only happen in bursts, I expected them to do a few commits every day, instead itโs like 10 days a year with 1700+ commits total.
But I wouldnโt assume they are conventionally malicious, more like a paperclip storage optimiser
urushitan ๆผใใ @kakera.kintsugi.moe
Agreed, leads me to think they have some kind of script that rewrites filenames and directory names to be symbolic/symmetric and they run it manually rather than on some automated schedule. Then by storing it as a git repo they can find open git hosting and just mirror it there (the lastest copy I saw was like 7 or 8 GB so definitely not tiny, but also not enough to take down your average self hosting project)beegnyoshi @lemmy.zip
What does it mean to proxy a repository through the site? talkingpumpkin @lemmy.world
No idea, but itโs certainly not the intended use of github.
Have you already reported the user (look at their other repos) or should I?
theherk @lemmy.world
Several such repositories very similar. Iโm thinking some strange encoding for using it as remote storage of some sort. mark @programming.dev OP
Just reported. Wasnโt sure if I should at first. But the more people who report it, the better, right? ;) ThanksNaibofTabr @infosec.pub English
Good catch. Someone is trying to use your site as a proxy for malicious software. You should report the repository.
mark @programming.dev OP
Good idea. I didnโt report it before because I wasnโt quite sure of whether or not it was malicious or just someone testing something out. But itโs clear this person isnโt just testing or debugging something. Iโll report. Thanks!AlteE @programming.dev
Probably someone created it for prank/harmful purposes. ludrol @programming.dev
At first glance there is a lot of noise that look like an ARG but there is just too much random stuff. There are some binary blobs that are marked as executable. They might be malware.
Edit:
Found blender screenshots, firefox screenshots with some firefox extension config files, SVGs and PNGs, links to alternative 4chans, solidworks tutorials and blender VK groups
They are crazy for using VERY heavily riced windows that is ultra-minimalist white.
Russian hacker for sure. Might or might not have developed malware. I am more inclined for this to be a cloud backup hosted on github.
Edit2: The Filepath is crazy
mark @programming.dev OP
Itโs insane, right? I was looking through the files and trying to find anything that made sense. None of it does. I thought it was some foreign or custom encoded programming language or something.
ludrol @programming.dev
It makes sense in Terry A. Davis/Temple OS sense. Someone mentally ill needs everything to be symmetrical. They substitute o with โ in www.gโโgle.com I think they use fancy unicode to have a bearable symmetrical font; And someday they found that they can upload stuff to github and they upload what they made.Quetzalcutlass @lemmy.world English
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