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Malicious MAL-2024-11608

http-query

PyPI package · versions 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3

Reported Sep 6, 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 (f19b11d590534cc47f47b9fc60fae3affd054b1f5dc720dbbc17147cc7095653)
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