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 (c108190780b32337fdce8748948935ac4229f0236710653f363b80a95dfbcd17)
Before creating the boto3 client, package exfiltrates user's credentials. In this version, the exfiltrating is masked as connecting to an AWS component. The URL to the component is expected to be hex-encoded. In fact, the related GitHub project uses it as a dependency and sets as the URL the attacker-controlled domain. In this way, the AWS libraries are abused to generate the request to the malicious infrastructure and exfiltrate credentials.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-08-aws-enumerate
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- exfiltration-generic
- action-hidden-in-lib-usage
- exfiltration-credentials
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
Domains
- api[.]aliyun-sdk-requests[.]xyz other packages →
- aliyun-sdk-requests[.]xyz other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://api[.]aliyun-sdk-requests[.]xyz/aws other packages →
- hxxps://github[.]com/kohlersbtuh15/accesskey_tools other packages →