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 (ef5a16574ecd987f57925735cdbeb06062b47dc13fda6c1f30a68e9aba9571ad)
Package is a typosquatting or dependency confusion attempt with a low-harm local-only action, like leaving a flag file.
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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.
Campaign: GENERIC-local-typosquatting
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- dependency-confusion
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- typosquatting
Source: ossf-package-analysis (c0f412fad7f706349e43d478e81c92945192f9e812e50d5dcdac93f50fb809ef)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'krbutils' @ 1.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.