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Malicious MAL-2024-11607

hellopythopyy

PyPI package · versions 0.19.0, 0.21.0, 0.29.0, 0.24.0, 0.23.0

Reported Aug 23, 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 (4d534cccb22ee1d1a160d632f8698201e94ea1c69129838084362bd42c52a9a9)
Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm.

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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: GENERIC-simple-tests

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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