Comment by ForOldHack

This is what it is used for:

https://dev.to/andersoncontreira/warning-to-developers-a-new...

A “recruiter” (sometimes pretending to be a CEO/HR) contacts you. The job looks amazing — above-market salary, remote position, paid in USD, etc. They ask for your CV and GitHub. They say you’re “approved for the next stage” without any real interview. Before the call, they send you a codebase to review or modify as a “technical test.”

When I get one of these, I automatically spin up a cloned VM, and test it there, which for the most part it gets infected immediately. as I watch the VM connect to odd places ( C&C computers ) for which I add any names/IP addresses to my host file, and then spin up another cloned VM, with the adjustments to the hosts file, and watch the malware get all lonely... but once, it was able to escape the VM... so I had to scramble to disinfect both the RM and the VM, and then update, and look around for hardening tools.

Its satisfying to delete an infected VM, with a "Not this time Jack."