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


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `cryptograohy` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 28 Sep 2024

## What is MAL-2024-11568?

MAL-2024-11568 is a malicious package in cryptograohy, published on 28 Sep 2024. 

### Official description

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.

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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: 2024-09-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.

## What should I do about MAL-2024-11568?

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-2024-11568 is a malicious package: cryptograohy (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-2024-11568/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-11568/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-11568

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-11568/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.