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Malicious MAL-2024-11621

kersa

PyPI package · versions 0.1

Reported Sep 20, 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 (d622fba4f0f9e74871fb87964bdc3818e244e0f9669a814ae71b923ff699e9be)
During installation, a cryptominer is secretly installed and started.

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

Campaign: 2024-09-bondonioanderas-cryptominer

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- cryptominer

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

- obfuscation

Indicators of compromise

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URLs

  • hxxps://raw[.]githubusercontent[.]com/MoneroOcean/xmrig_setup/master/setup_moneroocean_miner[.]sh other packages →