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 (3cb3ef6da7e0d1c1461bb944c5ff0e356b73e52d271afa9e94435097f1d0764f)
When using methods from the package, it downloads an obfuscated code from Github and puts it in multiple localisation. While it appears that this code is used to perform action user requested, deobfuscation reveals exfiltrating user's data instead.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-08-kertash
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- exfiltration-generic
- A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.
- obfuscation
- action-hidden-in-lib-usage
Indicators of compromise
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URLs
- hxxps://raw[.]githubusercontent[.]com/0xPwnme/kertash/refs/heads/main/kertash[.]py other packages →