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Malicious MAL-2025-191706

conn-utils

PyPI package · versions 1.6.10, 1.6.11

Reported Mar 27, 2025 · 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 (25be0eaa51dd4c4ba03afd81b4cfad938ceb07dacb0195a9179b46413178e086)
Already during the installation, the file with slightly obfuscated code is loaded and starts exfiltrating information about the host. It especially targets information about additional indexes configured for pip. Data is exfiltrated using DNS queries

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-03-conn-utils

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-generic

- obfuscation

Indicators of compromise

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