trickery

GHSA-3wpx-mf39-mrw5

Malicious code in trickery (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (3ad5df28c8d5f5afa377d6b54a7eac1d3110610783c7e62fbd084a0bd49baac5)
Package contains code to install a backdoor - and additionally to a user-controlled backdoor, it also installs the second, with own C2 server. It's not automatically activated. Once started, it can execute commands from C2 and exfiltrate data.


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


Campaign: 2025-06-old-trickery


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - backdoor


 - files-exfiltration


 - peristence-autorun


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - 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/trickery/MAL-2026-3698.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/trickery
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/trickery/MAL-2026-3698.json
- https://github.com/socioware1/trickery
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3wpx-mf39-mrw5

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.0

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