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Malicious MAL-2024-9407

j5gnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p

PyPI package · versions 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 (0e410a6e975b8a7d6930f2fbde2be25a08fd2bc8995fc57d1794fc12eaf1e019)
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 (f687494d7deb053d91f0bf7154dd9981e9e9e4c227483141dc806b3cab994a34)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'j5gnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p' @ 0.0.1 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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

Indicators of compromise

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