# MAL-2024-8024: Malicious code in artifact-lab-3-package-b55680cd (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `artifact-lab-3-package-b55680cd` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 10 Aug 2024

## What is MAL-2024-8024?

MAL-2024-8024 is a malicious package in artifact-lab-3-package-b55680cd, published on 10 Aug 2024. 

### Official description

Packages showing simple variants of revshell with targets to ngrok. Most probably experiments. Later versions moved to use Burp Collaborator to exfiltrate simple data. Pentest? An artifact from some red team curse?

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

Campaign: 2024-08-lab-artifacts-revshell

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

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

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

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'artifact-lab-3-package-b55680cd' @ 0.1.1 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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

## What should I do about MAL-2024-8024?

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-2024-8024 is a malicious package: artifact-lab-3-package-b55680cd (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-2024-8024/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-8024/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-8024

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-8024/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.