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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: kam193 (18da24e92fd40457ad3df2af568c07d41b35f44e6e07e8fac3bf0eafba9c2154)
During installation, obfuscated code exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallet data to a hardcoded location and places a backdoor through a new authorized SSH key. Information about the placed backdoor is sent back to the attacker, and sshd configuration is adjusted to ensure the successful remote connection.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-05-ninja-core-utils
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- obfuscation
- crypto-related
- exfiltration-crypto
- backdoor
Indicators of compromise
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URLs
- hxxp://144[.]126[.]142[.]148:5555/tao other packages →
- hxxp://144[.]126[.]142[.]148:5555/report other packages →
IP addresses
- 144[.]126[.]142[.]148 other packages →