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pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

whalebone7-poc

MAL-2025-3018

Malicious code in whalebone7-poc (PyPI)

Details


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## Source: kam193 (ebd207a56329855d7d146895e375b39fcbe907f6ff2e7489a80bbe7c6d4a01fc)
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)

  • 0.0.4

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