MAL-2024-11248 Malicious code in gwinpy (PyPI)

Malicious package Published
Package
gwinpy
Registry
PyPI

What is MAL-2024-11248?

MAL-2024-11248 is a malicious package in gwinpy, published on 6 Sep 2024.

Official description

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-generic

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • typosquatting

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'gwinpy' @ 9999.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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

What should I do about MAL-2024-11248?

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

Sources

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