electrum-bch

GHSA-qpp2-5jv2-c3j4

Malicious code in electrum-bch (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.3.6`

## Source: kam193 (8e4c3bb0f735a352c6f4d18865f3a145912c31f6b9da22c48e731e7fe750b1dd)
The modification of https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum (not clear which version or fork) that during usage will exfiltrate files from the current directory, presumably wanting to collect sensitive data.


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


Campaign: 2025-08-electrum-bch


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - crypto-related


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage


 - exfiltration-crypto


 - exfiltration-generic


 - clones-real-package

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/electrum-bch/MAL-2025-47762.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/electrum-bch
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/electrum-bch/MAL-2025-47762.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qpp2-5jv2-c3j4

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.3.6

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