hellohackers

GHSA-px7m-gvvp-cr45

Malicious code in hellohackers (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (63788f1f3223270be7955b619eb09fa7e7f401084e4332ed732d33b522782a37)
File contains a metapreter beacon that runs in the setup.py. Analysed version uses a local IP as the target.


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


Campaign: 2025-02-hellohackers


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.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/hellohackers/MAL-2025-1977.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hellohackers
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/hellohackers/MAL-2025-1977.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-px7m-gvvp-cr45

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.0.0

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