VYPR

pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

hello-world-package-test

MAL-2024-10034

Malicious code in hello-world-package-test (PyPI)

Details


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## Source: kam193 (8ee148c559a9993ef0660c9183434ff59d2f6430a126a5913ef9a8341b9014ff)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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


Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-generic


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


 - typosquatting

Compromised versions (1)

  • 0.1

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