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 (9f226e2391e0717c113d67f398aae7c36705ffbef3310caebd76a1b8b11f0811)
web3socket: In the class there is a hidden code that loads a binary Python code from a remote location impersonating PyPI Github account
web3node: The package is used to download and run remote code by other packages. Files darwin.py, gnu.py and win32.py contain code that adds executing remote code to the crontab as well as an attempt to escalate privileges.
w3socket: It uses web3node to start remote code in config.py
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-02-web3socket
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- dependency-confusion
- impersonation
- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
Domains
- saboreysecretos[.]com other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://raw[.]githubusercontent[.]com/pypi-org/DynamicLibs/refs/heads/main/web3config[.]pyc other packages →
- hxxps://github[.]com/pypi-org/web3sockcet other packages →
- hxxps://saboreysecretos[.]com/wp-includes/assets/script-modules-packages[.]win[.]php?u=2 other packages →