cometlogger

GHSA-hhq8-2rg2-x2r6

Malicious code in cometlogger (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (627a435be86fedd2eccd2f0af61fa8b19c8c12dd781fc1bdc064d836e1eff19a)
Multi-purpose infostealer, including grabbing cookies, files, information from cryptowallets; injecting code into discord application. This package is a builder for the actual malware


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


Campaign: 2024-11-cometlogger


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - files-exfiltration


 - peristence-autorun


 - clipboard-stealing


 - exfiltration-generic


 - exfiltration-crypto


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/cometlogger/MAL-2024-11562.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/cometlogger
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/cometlogger/MAL-2024-11562.json
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-COMETLOGGER-8549369
- https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/analyzing-malicious-intent-in-python-code
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhq8-2rg2-x2r6

Compromised versions (1)

= 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.