MAL-2024-12280 Malicious code in google-play-store (PyPI)
- Package
- google-play-store
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2024-12280?
MAL-2024-12280 is a malicious package in google-play-store, published on 1 Oct 2024.
Official description
This is a copy of https://pypi.org/project/play-scraper/ with added a very questionable "telemetry": in scraper.py, L90 sends the user hostname, IP and the exact local ID of scraped application to the package author.
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-old-google-play-store
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.
dependency-confusion
action-hidden-in-lib-usage
clones-real-package
What should I do about MAL-2024-12280?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.