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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: amazon-inspector (6d316a35a6fe335032b2c59e47627c0af28bec9688cba40585f1365cab4f4452)
getpubip/__init__.py runs exec() on an approximately 2KB opaque payload produced by reversing a string literal, base64-decoding it, and zlib-decompressing it (lambda __: __import__('zlib').decompress(__import__('base64').b64decode(__[::-1])); exec(_(b'...'))). The package advertises itself as a three-line helper that returns the host's public IP by calling ipify, and a clean implementation of that functionality exists in core.py; __init__.py does not re-export get_ip and its only effect on import is to execute the hidden blob. The payload is reached whenever a consumer runs `import getpubip` or `python -m getpubip`, so any installer that uses the package executes the concealed code with no further user action. The triple-layered obfuscation (string reverse, base64, zlib) and single-character identifiers are deliberately chosen to hide the executed code from reviewers; whatever the decoded bytes do runs in the installer's process on first import.
Source: kam193 (6a07d6dd387bbd88252ffdda7f8c10daf988f0622250daf20e7ec8ee0f63c6d5)
During import, obfuscated code downloads and executes an infostealer. Campaign shares some similarities with the campaign 2026-10-fontcase.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-10-getpubip
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- Downloads and executes a remote executable.
- infostealer
- exfiltration-browser-data
- obfuscation
Indicators of compromise
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Domains
- api-bsx[.]pages[.]dev other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://api-bsx[.]pages[.]dev/download other packages →