Observed arrival · 2026-08-29
CleanMyMac.top’s suspicious Terminal cleaner
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A polished page presents itself as MacPaw’s CleanMyMac and offers copy-paste Terminal commands for installing a Mac-cleaning app.
Field notes
The page advertises a bundle of more than 25 utilities, ranging from junk removal and application management to disk visualization and cloud-storage cleanup. Its installation workflow is materially different from a normal software download: visitors are shown encoded commands that decode into shell instructions, including a curl request to a numeric HTTP address whose response is piped to bash. The page states macOS 11.0+ support and a 320 MB download, while its review totals differ between sections.
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