Table of contents How it begins

A closer look: second stage loader

Some precaution for next time

What now

The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.

“A relevant opportunity” with part-time remote work and a great hourly compensation is what surely pulls a lot of current Software Engineers into the conversation when a new job offer on LinkedIn comes in - so it happened to a friend of mine. The job offer was matching very well with the former experience and paired with speeding up the interview process with a quickly sent coding challenge after a couple of messages on LinkedIn.

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The initial contact was made in the name of a company that did not know about this. So it is pure phishing just to steal your secrets and credentials.…