astronomios

GHSA-872v-wqhw-x4cx

Malicious code in astronomios (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.6`

## Source: kam193 (44bb8480782438fda3365b0ffcc74a04ae68477448d543ae51c1744b0cdb4a77)
setup.py contains highly obfuscated infostealer


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


Campaign: 2025-02-astronomio


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - dependency-confusion


 - obfuscation


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - exfiltration-crypto

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/astronomios/MAL-2025-1964.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/astronomios
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/astronomios/MAL-2025-1964.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-872v-wqhw-x4cx

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.6

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