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 (1bb6da528665b6d869e583cb594f1f0cc7e7ccaf8cc5a7a859c0db9e7fa80c19)
It appears to be a forgotten pentest checking typosquatting against cobo-custody package, but may also have malicious purposes. During installation, if a machine is Mac, an obfuscated code attempts to download and execute a shell script. Currently, the server does not respond.
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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: 2024-08-old-cobo-sectest
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- Downloads and executes a remote executable.
- clones-real-package
- crypto-related
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- obfuscation
- typosquatting
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
URLs
- hxxp://114[.]132[.]245[.]217:40081 other packages →