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 (88c1df06a02daf1a911f895df0bd495b0f0d2e72f3b9ad45fe5a837575379c9e)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- exfiltration-env-variables
- exfiltration-generic
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- typosquatting
Source: ossf-package-analysis (095f9908b28b3dfb45e9f5e8d291ad2492bb271f23e5f4b714328ba722252838)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'flag-leak-r' @ 0.1.0 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.