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amazon-boto

MAL-2026-3148

Malicious code in amazon-boto (PyPI)

Details


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## Source: kam193 (649bb559f3078565515a9fee16dbe78e0d1b5575943cbaf020135f8e70e2f17d)
When using the package, the given AWS credentials are silently exfiltrated to a hardcoded location. This incarnation of the long-running campaign was first flagged by OpenSourceMalware https://opensourcemalware.com/pypi/amazon-boto


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


Campaign: 2025-08-aws-enumerate


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage


 - exfiltration-credentials

Compromised versions (2)

  • 1.42.41
  • 1.42.42

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