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GITSHELLPAD is a lightweight 64-bit Golang backdoor used in the Gopher Strike espionage campaign against Indian government entities. It uses threat actor-controlled private GitHub repositories and the GitHub REST API as command-and-control infrastructure, allowing its traffic to blend with legitimate developer-platform activity. The implant creates a victim-specific repository workspace, submits host-identification data, periodically retrieves Base64-encoded commands, executes them, and returns command output through the repository. Supported operations include changing directories, executing commands through the Windows command interpreter, launching background processes, and uploading or downloading files. GITSHELLPAD was delivered as a follow-on payload by the GOGITTER downloader after a spearphishing chain using PDF lures, a fraudulent software-update prompt, and an ISO payload. The activity is assessed as Pakistan-linked and has tradecraft similarities to APT36 (Transparent Tribe), although attribution to APT36 is not conclusive.
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1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
В кампаниях Gopher Strike и Sheet Attack GITSHELLPAD указан как backdoor с C2 через приватные GitHub-репозитории.
3 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
10 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Mentioned only as a functional comparison to RUSTYSHADE; no further capabilities are described in this reference.
Some of its functionality is similar to GITSHELLPAD, which we observed in the GOGITTER campaign.
Go-бэкдор, применяющий приватные репозитории GitHub в качестве C2-канала.
A backdoor payload retrieved by the GOGITTER downloader from GitHub repositories, used to provide ongoing access to compromised systems.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.