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pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

easyhttprequest

MAL-2024-5101

Malicious code in easyhttprequest (PyPI)

Details


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## Source: kam193 (2b8f76adb9701e490a7cb89a6457afd1ce1cbe67712cdca356da7f35791ba993)
Clone of the requests package. During installation, it downloads a git repository and attempts to execute a script from its commit message


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


Campaign: 2023-12-09-easyhttprequest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - clones-real-package

Compromised versions (2)

  • 2.31.5
  • 2.31.4

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