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Malicious MAL-2024-9306

iufgbewroibgfowiebc

PyPI package · versions 0.0.2, 0.0.1

Reported Oct 16, 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 (06029514a813cf9b228f1be7c997bffc2510869a5f0130d6036fa63ee6ea2fbc)
According to the description, packages should demonstrate the dependency confusion attack. The realisation is, in fact, a spamming with packages having as the only purpose reporting basic data like hostname and current working directory.

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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-lokopoil23

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- dependency-confusion

Source: ossf-package-analysis (c2b2b09ca0baae5d76aae6930f72f167ac70938e3cf7f95a2372133bd49ddbeb)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'iufgbewroibgfowiebc' @ 0.0.2 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

Indicators of compromise

Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.

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