pyobfuscation

GHSA-6xvq-wmm3-6rxq

Malicious code in pyobfuscation (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (f8e00692944f5cafaa4c7fdb9974554f20629bd4581e2c68baa5f1b0ca675def)
During installation, an executable is downloaded and started. It's been identified to contain Brute Ratel C4 components


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


Campaign: 2025-05-pyobfuscation


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - malware


 - 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/pyobfuscation/MAL-2025-6570.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pyobfuscation
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyobfuscation/MAL-2025-6570.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wmm3-6rxq

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

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