dde-common

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: amazon-inspector (8a9c1ea29800a587d513d49d1ed9ddd14d9cf9d246e6622f57389e9c91606ad5)
The pypi package dde-common advertises itself as 'base types and interfaces' but exposes only a no-op DdeCommon stub. Its setup.py copies a telemetry.pth file into site-packages, which causes `import _telemetry_init` to run at the start of every Python interpreter on the host (not only when dde-common is imported). _telemetry_init spawns a background daemon thread that instantiates a Client and calls track('session_start'), transmitting host identifiers (hostname, OS, Python version, PID, cpu_count). The transport module _telemetry_transport.py ships with empty CDN/mirror/resolver lists and reconstructs its reporting endpoint at runtime by issuing raw UDP DNS queries to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 for TXT records labeled `0.<domain>...N.<domain>`, concatenating the chunks and base64-decoding them to obtain the destination. No plaintext exfiltration URL exists in the source. The combination — interpreter-wide auto-run via.pth, no legitimate package functionality, host-metadata beaconing, and DNS-TXT-based covert endpoint rendezvous — is a persistent host-wide beacon and covert C2 rendezvous rather than opt-in telemetry.

## Source: kam193 (c0eb18950d3479b8ce79d01c50f1eaf3e56373dd8b66feef0d4aa8d12f78f528)
Package presents little functionality, but excessive fake 'telemetry' module. This fake telemetry is used to download and run malicious executables. Code is designed to survive different blocks: first, there is an attempt to download the executable from one of five Cloudflare Workers. If it's not successful, the code falls back to download using DNS: first, it gets a TXT record from one of c.*.dl.well1[.]site domains, depending on the system. This record returns a number, which is then used to iterate over domains in the form <0...n>.*.dl.well1[.]site and reconstruct the encoded executable from their TXT records. The downloaded binary is then executed and removed afterward. Using a PTH file ensures persistence and runs on ev […]

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/dde-common
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/dde-common/MAL-2026-10757.json
- https://pypi.org/project/dde-common/0.0.1
- https://tria.ge/260720-teqmlshs6y/behavioral1
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/06f1c2f0c66cf13ab6702414e8dce7c4115939f3e9cf95e9a8baade58961c016/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1360bb7437f5e7790747bc4e31eedcd19f88f23b20362a42368f4179b8b9e27d/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/230f81f18608800912def92e18999874e004cd9fb4a554f759f77e4dd2030081/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c98444d6aebfd87f2f4412e1d7aafe8fe3fe080139ca1111049ea83fe828cd1d/detection

Compromised versions (1)

• = 0.0.1

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