AndroxGh0st is a family of malware written in Python that notoriously targets Laravel .env files. Since the inception of our new fleet of web honeypots deployed in December 2021, Sicehice has detected this activity and observed tens of thousands of requests with the HTTP POST body set to 0x[]=androxgh0st . Searching this string on GitHub yields various repositories, many of which help identify AWS secrets inadvertently exposed by the Laravel framework. One feature of AndroxGh0st is the ability to search for exposed AWS credentials, namely looking for AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY identifiers. While individuals may mistakenly leak their key pairs to version control repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket, there is always the possibility of inadvertently leaking key pairs directly on web servers as well. AWS has gone through efforts to continually scan GitHub for AWS key pairs and automatically apply the AWS managed policy AWSCompromi...