journey-test-helloshell

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.2.0`

## Source: kam193 (bdf4549e34df1c1c7dfd704454011cf0a26ea5807948e917d7bc65f130182fc9)
In specific environments, package starts a reverse shell during installation.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-journey-test-helloshell


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.


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


 - targetted-attack

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/87d000cbaa46dac157e74ddabc58e27178306b96/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-test-helloshell/MAL-2026-18124.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/journey-test-helloshell
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/87d000cbaa46dac157e74ddabc58e27178306b96/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-test-helloshell/MAL-2026-18124.json
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/e4cf5c2f85ea1249db64cc275e6f1cfef21d6025/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-test-helloshell/MAL-2026-18124.json
- https://pypi.org/project/journey-test-helloshell/0.2.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g885-3jpg-94hg

Compromised versions (1)

• = 0.2.0

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