# MAL-2024-10421: Malicious code in tiketoken (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `tiketoken` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 6 Nov 2024

## What is MAL-2024-10421?

MAL-2024-10421 is a malicious package in tiketoken, published on 6 Nov 2024. 

### Official description

A campaign of probably pentest packages flooding PYPI. Installing the package or importing the module triggers reporting basic info like hostname, path and the username to the package author. There is no other purpose of the package.

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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: 2024-11-byted-dast

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

 - typosquatting

 - dependency-confusion

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'tiketoken' @ 99.7 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

## What should I do about MAL-2024-10421?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2024-10421 is a malicious package: tiketoken (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-10421/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-10421/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-10421

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-10421/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.