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Malicious MAL-2024-12303

maliciouspackage

PyPI package · versions 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1

Reported Oct 15, 2024 · Updated Dec 31, 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 (d0e8a8d581266436f0546b5039ee82ab734d45f8489e281322dd871124dad9ce)
Clearly a demo malicious package, attempting to exfiltrate a token from the git config

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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: 2024-10-old-maliciouspackage

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-generic