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 (f66b290465d72fc55bce4fef4200ebea68c430be84cdcbbabec5263958041781)
When using this library to do any request, a "validate_origin" function is called (L1320 in _client.py). This method, located in _utils.py, collects all request data, tries also read /etc/shadow using Docker container, and sends them to an endpoint controlled by the package author.
The package seems to be a clone of httpx and also informs in the README that it's a malicious library, as so, it seems to be a malicious research attempts.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2024-09-old-faest
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- exfiltration-generic
- action-hidden-in-lib-usage
- clones-real-package
Indicators of compromise
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Domains
- donkeyback[.]glitch[.]me other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://donkeyback[.]glitch[.]me/metrics/collect other packages →
- hxxps://git[.]sr[.]ht/~wsmith/faest other packages →