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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 (3ad5df28c8d5f5afa377d6b54a7eac1d3110610783c7e62fbd084a0bd49baac5)
Package contains code to install a backdoor - and additionally to a user-controlled backdoor, it also installs the second, with own C2 server. It's not automatically activated. Once started, it can execute commands from C2 and exfiltrate data.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-06-old-trickery
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- backdoor
- files-exfiltration
- peristence-autorun
- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.
- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
URLs
- hxxps://github[.]com/cipher234/socioware/raw/main/config[.]pyw other packages →
- hxxps://github[.]com/cipher234/socioware/raw/main/socio_req other packages →
- hxxps://github[.]com/socioware1/trickery/raw/refs/heads/main/archive/trickery[.]rar other packages →