pythonhttp

GHSA-jvr4-27vw-jm34

Malicious code in pythonhttp (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (3ed5759c2260c5467724f053f3d59eac62f5491fc2d03350fef0a6f832652e3b)
Installing the package starts a heavily obfuscated Powershell Script that attempts to (at least) overwrite copied crypto wallets


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


Campaign: 2025-03-pythonhttp


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - obfuscation


 - malware


 - crypto-related

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pythonhttp/MAL-2025-2993.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pythonhttp
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pythonhttp/MAL-2025-2993.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jvr4-27vw-jm34

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.