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 (3f60b37d84566711ce6977710fcb74c3358a2c95655c8e115dbb863f67ff4009)
Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm.
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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.
Campaign: GENERIC-simple-tests
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
Source: ossf-package-analysis (f0f648527ba68ae34fd8b933322846afca713f9d9649424c3cd01ddc9431d9de)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'soultracker' @ 0.1.0 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.