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Malicious MAL-2025-4666

proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1

PyPI package · versions 0.15.99

Reported Sep 6, 2024 · Updated Dec 12, 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 (1d21bb408ed0e178e23e5b4face7188968fd711ea7ceab009b9d04e6a508740d)
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 (f26463c2df12a5e2c69e073c1dc6e08ae3e5a9ef04039733ecd85efd53262393)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1' @ 0.15.99 (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.