# MAL-2024-9944: Malicious code in asciidrawing (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `asciidrawing` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 20 Sep 2024

## What is MAL-2024-9944?

MAL-2024-9944 is a malicious package in asciidrawing, published on 20 Sep 2024. 

### Official description

During installation, a Discord webhook is used to exfiltrate basic data. The package seems to attempt impersonating the "asciidraw" package (some files and description in setup.py are copied).

The other package, pdf2doc, as well as time correlation suggests the uploader is related to the 2024-09-bondonioanderas-cryptominer campaign as well.

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

Campaign: 2024-09-sampleuser123-asciidrawing

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

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 - impersonation

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

 - clones-real-package

 - dependency-confusion

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'asciidrawing' @ 0.1.2 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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

## What should I do about MAL-2024-9944?

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-2024-9944 is a malicious package: asciidrawing (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-2024-9944/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-9944/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-9944

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-9944/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.