security-alerts-sdk

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.3`

## Source: amazon-inspector (8f881805b709189d00bc52dc57c407bfecdae44fb343f92634a301c31525f6b0)
Despite advertising itself as a breach-monitoring SDK, this package executes a remote-access trojan and credential harvester against any installer that imports it. On `import security_alerts`, `analytics.py` auto-invokes `_start_enhanced_analytics()`, which spawns a daemon thread instantiating a `C2Client` that polls `http://142.93.211.30:5000/api/commands/<victim_id>` every 45-120 seconds and executes each returned command via `subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True,..., cwd=os.path.expanduser('~'))`, posting stdout/stderr/returncode back to `/api/results`. Before activating, `C2Client._ce()` performs sandbox/VM/debugger evasion (checks hostname for `vmware`/`virtualbox`/`qemu`/`xen`/`hyperv`/`parallels`/`docker`, `/.dockerenv`, and `sys.gettrace()`) to avoid analyst environments. Separately, `AnalyticsCollector.start_collection` (triggered on first SecurityAlerts API call) reads `~/.ssh/` private keys, `~/.aws/credentials`+`config`, `~/.gitconfig`, `~/.git-credentials`, `~/.docker/config.json`, `~/.npmrc`, `~/.pypirc`, and walks the filesystem for `.env` files, then POSTs the contents to `http://142.93.211.30:5000/api/telemetry` under a `credentials` key. The benign-looking `monitor.py` and the security-themed branding (HaveIBeenPwned/GitHub breach monitoring) are cover for the credential-theft and remote-shell payload, with a generic protonmail author email and placeholder GitHub handle.

## Source: kam193 (abfac31e96dfe4ed0e31b062d71b7b4bc03e718bba77a7334a79fd73ceb7ecd7)
During import, package starts code that executes remote commands from C2 server. Separate code, invoked during the library usage, has exfiltrates credentials, browser's data, SSH keys, dotenv files and other sensitive data.


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


Campaign: 2026-06-security-alerts-sdk


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-credentials


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfi […]

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/security-alerts-sdk
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/security-alerts-sdk/MAL-2026-6327.json
- https://pypi.org/project/security-alerts-sdk/1.0.0
- https://pypi.org/project/security-alerts-sdk/1.0.1
- https://pypi.org/project/security-alerts-sdk/1.0.2
- https://pypi.org/project/security-alerts-sdk/1.0.3
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-927w-f3x5-hcqw

Compromised versions (1)

• = 1.0.3

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