ig-gox

GHSA-rhpj-mr3r-r4gg

Malicious code in ig-gox (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (780638a0747103eb44a85312a2cfb552981e498655f638c5baf86eb4a5f74042)
Package hides obfuscated code aimed to avoid analysis and downloading the remote stage. The remote code is used to abuse Instagram service for mass fake account registration.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-ig-gox


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - obfuscation


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - abusing-3rd-api

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/f862c8e9d318a9c6d98d84878cf5de82eb55a0ba/osv/malicious/pypi/ig-gox/MAL-2026-17712.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/ig-gox
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/f862c8e9d318a9c6d98d84878cf5de82eb55a0ba/osv/malicious/pypi/ig-gox/MAL-2026-17712.json
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ff41f6680a0ebbef2268cdb5daf253d4b400cb05/osv/malicious/pypi/ig-gox/MAL-2026-17712.json
- https://pypi.org/project/ig-gox/1.0.0
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/e9f322144d66927bc960dc3a30bbbd926a50f475/osv/malicious/pypi/ig-gox/MAL-2026-17712.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rhpj-mr3r-r4gg

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.0

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