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Malicious MAL-2024-10106

popeye-xyz

PyPI package · versions 1.0.4

Reported Jul 22, 2024 · Updated Mar 19, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: kam193 (583bf7b6e6437de01c7cb0cf1793e661cb0e344ba8a2235ecebc18a9bfd50a75)
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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2024-01-moye-moye

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-ssh-keys

- exfiltration-env-variables

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