alpha-booster

GHSA-29ph-wp37-5jwh

Malicious code in alpha-booster (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0`

## Source: kam193 (8fe7614b282cfa81278bc61bde1998e286fe7554c1d37b4c3185718c6e54f6af)
Code downloads and runs the remote executable. While the current link seems not to work, the previous versions had an embedded infostealer instead.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2025-05-discord-booster


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/alpha-booster/MAL-2025-6431.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/alpha-booster
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/alpha-booster/MAL-2025-6431.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29ph-wp37-5jwh

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.