botoceor

GHSA-5px2-47r5-h3r5

Malicious code in botoceor (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (8bf39054053dfe99fc83c836bb407659d11241cc09f2572a72524d980b9c5914)
During installation, a cryptominer is secretly installed and started.


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


Campaign: 2024-09-bondonioanderas-cryptominer


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - cryptominer


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


 - obfuscation

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/botoceor/MAL-2024-11540.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/botoceor
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/botoceor/MAL-2024-11540.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5px2-47r5-h3r5

Compromised versions (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.