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pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

hellodista

MAL-2025-5653

Malicious code in hellodista (PyPI)

Details


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## Source: kam193 (988e08e45c0c2fdbdf337e012d3930d14eedbe4add858a55cee2156849033b90)
Series of packages mostly with an obfuscated infostealer attempting to collect Chrome data. While discord webhook is usually set to an example, there are other, correct uploading URLs 

Some of related packages only test partial malicious code, like webhooks from overwritten setup.py


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


Campaign: 2025-07-0x9xnx


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - obfuscation


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - exfiltration-crypto


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

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (3311ae2d4539920be4c0baaaa8587368a7c562bf75e9ec8a8b27fa42898f906f)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'hellodista' @ 0.1.2 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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

Compromised versions (2)

  • 0.1.2
  • 0.1.0

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