google-search-result

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.4.3`

## Source: kam193 (7ada4db6050e81933dbf7a82d659e0793c79b0b8f771b3175b5ef4668563238a)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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


Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-generic


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - typosquatting

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (2532d867a44422c3a065c3ba13d63ca9fd446915c2c49aee0877aba997c0a450)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'google-search-result' @ 2.4.3 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/google-search-result/MAL-2026-874.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/google-search-result
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/google-search-result/MAL-2026-874.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3x2j-2c8c-f2rp

Compromised versions (1)

• = 2.4.3

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