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 (27c17335ba5378258efc5d22274e8104e45a493eec51d60d0adbeb9c4f627714)
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 (399ba544f533d013d73525a2e22fbc83c2f4f00ce44c27c15cff9ca8ccaf11de)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'do-not-install-this-package-001' @ 0.1.3 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.