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Malicious MAL-2024-11660

pojang-resorter

PyPI package · versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 1.2, 1.6.2, 1.22, 1.25, 1.92, 1.97, 1.926, 1.9626, 2.3, 2.4, 2.32.7, 2.32.8, 2.32.9, 2.32.10, 2.32.14, 2.32.15, 2.32.16, 2.32.17, 2.32.18, 2.32.19, 2.32.20, 2.32.21, 2.32.22, 2.32…

Reported Sep 2, 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 (2b5f9cd53d855ccc1ebed2b1f9dc610af8ee0978f5fa689cad954b3a56b1a22b)
Early versions used overriding install command to take screenshots, then it moved to automated installing an infostealer. Later the behaviour was changed and looks like being a toolkit to install malware, yet, depending on version, containing an automated infostealer installation. The exact code is partially hidden behind different obfuscation methods.

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

Campaign: 2024-08-pojang-resorter

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

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

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- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- obfuscation

- exfiltration-generic