is-malicious
A codebase scanner that helps you not run malicous code
Details
- External ID
- 1375781597
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- is-malicious
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6369459390212657
- Tags
- jev, security-scanner, typesafe-ai
- Fetched at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 22, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools and programming utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- codebase vulnerability scanner for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a basic static AST or heuristic scanner is easy to vibe code, but identifying real malware reliably without severe false positives or trivial evasion requires specialized threat intelligence and dynamic analysis.
What it would actually take: A real malicious code scanner requires an AST parser combined with dynamic sandboxed behavioral analysis, deobfuscation pipelines, and an up-to-date threat intelligence database of known malicious package signatures and C2 indicators. Developing this requires dedicated security researchers specializing in supply chain attacks, malware analysis, and sandbox evasion defenses.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 981 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #337 of 982 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- taoxd · github · 2026-09-13 · 252 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Agent-pd · hn · 2026-06-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Sentrint, a security scanner for projects build with LLMs · hn · 2026-08-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- alter-zero · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Hazzel — a tiny, transparent coding agent for your terminal · hn · 2026-09-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ctx, a hackable desktop workbench for coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Tailsnitch · hn · 2026-01-05 · 280 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- REx-skill · github · 2026-09-23 · 96 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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