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Malware-research projects on GitHub

Malware source collections and analysis tools for security research.

As of , the most-starred Malware-research projects on GitHub are MalwareSourceCode (18.9K stars), awesome-malware-analysis (14.4K stars) and theZoo (13.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Malware-research repositories with 61.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on November 3 was Detect-It-Easy, with +15 stars in a day.

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61.5KStars in total
+35Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Nov 3

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  1. #1 · vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode

    MalwareSourceCode

    A large research collection of malware source code for many platforms and programming languages, maintained by vx-underground.

    18.9K
  2. #2 · rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis

    awesome-malware-analysis

    A curated 'awesome list' of malware analysis tools and resources, covering sample collection, sandboxes, detection tools, threat intelligence feeds, reverse engineering, and forensics.

    14.4K
  3. #3 · ytisf/theZoo

    theZoo

    theZoo is a public repository of live malware samples and their source code, gathered so that anyone interested in malware analysis can study real specimens in an organized and accessible way.

    13.5K
  1. 4

    Detect-It-Easy

    11.9Khorsicq/Detect-It-Easy · JavaScript

    Detect It Easy (DiE) is a cross-platform tool that identifies file types and inspects executables (PE, ELF, Mach-O) for malware analysts, reverse engineers, and cybersecurity researchers, combining signature-based detection with a deep heuristic engine.

  2. 5

    x64dbg-mcp-server

    2.8Kduty1g/x64dbg-mcp-server · Zig

    x64dbg-MCP Server is a native plugin for the x64dbg debugger that exposes its full functionality over HTTP via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting any MCP-compatible AI assistant programmatically set breakpoints, step through code, read memory, dump registers, and more.

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