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 (649bb559f3078565515a9fee16dbe78e0d1b5575943cbaf020135f8e70e2f17d)
When using the package, the given AWS credentials are silently exfiltrated to a hardcoded location. This incarnation of the long-running campaign was first flagged by OpenSourceMalware https://opensourcemalware.com/pypi/amazon-boto
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-08-aws-enumerate
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- exfiltration-generic
- action-hidden-in-lib-usage
- exfiltration-credentials
Indicators of compromise
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Domains
- api[.]aliyun-sdk-requests[.]xyz other packages →
- aliyun-sdk-requests[.]xyz other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://api[.]aliyun-sdk-requests[.]xyz/aws other packages →
- hxxps://github[.]com/kohlersbtuh15/accesskey_tools other packages →