MAL-2024-9446 Malicious code in flag-leak-r (PyPI)

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 'flag-leak-r' @ 0.1.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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