pojang-resorter

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.22`

## Source: kam193 (2b5f9cd53d855ccc1ebed2b1f9dc610af8ee0978f5fa689cad954b3a56b1a22b)
Early versions used overriding install command to take screenshots, then it moved to automated installing an infostealer. Later the behaviour was changed and looks like being a toolkit to install malware, yet, depending on version, containing an automated infostealer installation. The exact code is partially hidden behind different obfuscation methods.


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


Campaign: 2024-08-pojang-resorter


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


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


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 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - exfiltration-generic

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pojang-resorter/MAL-2024-11660.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pojang-resorter
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pojang-resorter/MAL-2024-11660.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3d30ffd98e870abc0e09fb3af94d65fc8efd391ede958dd0365007a7ae020ec0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxfc-82j8-rm56

Compromised versions (1)

• = 1.22

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