farooq4321

GHSA-5cqp-5gpg-xp9g

Malicious code in farooq4321 (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (165ce280a6d073eebbba054677a6c80307c8353b31e41732ba1ffc1f8a020aa4)
Code in setup.py attempts to call a webhook, but most importantly to execute a revshell


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


Campaign: 2025-02-farooq4321


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.


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

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/farooq4321/MAL-2025-1975.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/farooq4321
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/farooq4321/MAL-2025-1975.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cqp-5gpg-xp9g

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.