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 (fdd3f3646435d9d7857a19999ffa38cdb99c04b4aa62177b1df6f2710b5412b3)
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
Source: ossf-package-analysis (7a402b93fab2d0ba3f8b49f3c4c5ec0d74b643021bb9b23ee79b819417203ff3)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'gwinpy' @ 9999.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.