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Malicious MAL-2024-12282

handyfiles

PyPI package · versions 0.0.1

Reported Dec 24, 2024 · Updated Dec 12, 2025

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 (381cd796d4e5fce8fb62c337374b5303e0b2466d67467efc95cbc4d7d8248dd4)
During the installation, the package iterates its files and attempts to import a hidden module - which is embedded as ZIP archive in the image file

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

Campaign: 2024-12-handyfiles

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

- obfuscation