VYPR

pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

pwnstar-lib

MAL-2024-12329

Malicious code in pwnstar-lib (PyPI)

Details


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## Source: kam193 (0b5a94b7cc47cb91bf552abe43f1a0d078ed5c6e668c5ff4caa8c4d9f6d14177)
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 (9)

  • 1.5
  • 1.6
  • 1.7
  • 1.8
  • 1.9
  • 2.0
  • 2.1
  • 2.3
  • 2.4

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