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 (2b8f76adb9701e490a7cb89a6457afd1ce1cbe67712cdca356da7f35791ba993)
Clone of the requests package. During installation, it downloads a git repository and attempts to execute a script from its commit message
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2023-12-09-easyhttprequest
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.
- clones-real-package
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
URLs
- hxxps://github[.]com/isaaknikolaev/PySocks other packages →
- hxxps://github[.]com/isaaknikolaev/PySocks[.]git other packages →