# paranoidninja/CarbonCopy

A tool which creates a spoofed certificate of any online website and signs an Executable for AV Evasion. Works for both Windows and Linux

Repository: https://github.com/paranoidninja/CarbonCopy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/carboncopy
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-10-03T03:23:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2849, "days_push": 2160, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1421, forks 282 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:40.749311+00:00)

## What it is
A Python CLI tool that downloads a website's TLS certificate, creates a spoofed version of it, and uses it to sign Windows executables for antivirus evasion. It works on both Windows and Linux using pyopenssl and osslsigncode.

## Use cases
- sign an executable with a spoofed certificate to bypass antivirus detection
- clone a website's TLS certificate for red team operations
- create fake code-signing certificates for pentest payloads
- evade AV signature checks on Windows binaries during authorized testing

## When to choose
- you are doing authorized red team or penetration testing and need signed-looking payloads
- you want a quick CLI tool that runs on both Linux and Windows

## When to avoid
- you need legitimate code-signing certificates from a real CA
- you want actively maintained tooling - the last release was in 2020
- your use case is not authorized security testing

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, cryptography, cli
- domain: security, penetration-testing
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: certificate-spoofing, code-signing, av-evasion, red-team, offensive-security, linux

## Member repositories
- paranoidninja/CarbonCopy (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.749311+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:46.984157+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/paranoidninja/CarbonCopy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:40.749311+00:00, sha f7d1462341a1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.