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Malicious MAL-2025-191861

s3transfer-sl

PyPI package · versions 0.12.4, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.12.2, 0.12.3, 0.12.5

Reported Apr 23, 2025 · Updated Dec 31, 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 (e1cc7c88223c47e4c3ceecc6fe73d05c1cbb505061a009f8ae5caf37086a2e09)
During installation, the package attempts to exfiltrate env variables and tokens from Azure metadata API. It's a malicious clon of s3transfer

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

Campaign: 2025-04-s3transfer-sl

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-cloud-tokens

- clones-real-package

- typosquatting