kingwork-test

GHSA-2m5m-9cwp-5qf8

Malicious code in kingwork-test (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (5f5651b094b6f22f4f79f533c24bb398eb10ed340bfccdcdc75fa5dcfc98b8bf)
The package contains the same code to deobfuscate code as in previous packages, but the malicious code itself is missing


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


Campaign: 2025-02-coinanalyze


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - backdoor


 - typosquatting


 - obfuscation


 - clones-real-package


 - crypto-related


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/kingwork-test/MAL-2025-191775.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/kingwork-test
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/kingwork-test/MAL-2025-191775.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2m5m-9cwp-5qf8

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.1

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