MAL-2024-11568 Malicious code in cryptograohy (PyPI)

The pyprettifier library has a feature to send out the user home path throuh the logger. It's attached to the init of EmojiConverter class. Other related packages utilize a typosquatting to imitate real packages, and attempts to call the EmojiConverter from pyprettifier, triggering notifying the author about the user's home path.

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: 2024-09-pyprettifier

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• typosquatting

• The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

• action-hidden-in-lib-usage

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

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'cryptograohy' @ 0.5.6 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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