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 (da1d699d5d12de135ae0da4180622e30084a77fd76ee5cd36fe5667ce14c4bbe)
Obfuscated code gets a command from the remote target and executes it. At the time of the test, it was just "whoami". Thus, it's rather just an experiment
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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: 2025-05-caixaequ2ahzoop
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- obfuscation
- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.
Source: ossf-package-analysis (82f9967b944983f117b085820df45222a6d7e6cfd130081af546f52071f9e21d)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'caixaequ2ahzoop' @ 2.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.
Indicators of compromise
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Domains
- d3gnpasobcdyif[.]cloudfront[.]net other packages →