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pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

iufgbewroibgfowiebc

GHSA-xcq6-w6pc-wjq4

Malicious code in iufgbewroibgfowiebc (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.2`

## Source: kam193 (06029514a813cf9b228f1be7c997bffc2510869a5f0130d6036fa63ee6ea2fbc)
According to the description, packages should demonstrate the dependency confusion attack. The realisation is, in fact, a spamming with packages having as the only purpose reporting basic data like hostname and current working directory.


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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.


Campaign: 2024-10-lokopoil23


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - dependency-confusion

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (c2b2b09ca0baae5d76aae6930f72f167ac70938e3cf7f95a2372133bd49ddbeb)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'iufgbewroibgfowiebc' @ 0.0.2 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/iufgbewroibgfowiebc/MAL-2024-9306.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/iufgbewroibgfowiebc
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/iufgbewroibgfowiebc/MAL-2024-9306.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xcq6-w6pc-wjq4

Compromised versions (1)

  • = 0.0.2

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