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artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63PyPI

Malicious code in artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 (PyPI) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

MAL-2024-12198
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63

What this malware does

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?

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.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
0.1.1

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

696c7ac85e62434e778a406e645d4ed6cb2ff694b042efd603f14331de56319e
a814378a8188b464c5289007203c2b20c3ec2a0383ee18bd96e0f41ad44d7982
3157f4265540eac9356511b8607870bffc17a261b00c240ff6cbc5bcb7375716

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 (version 0.1.1). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 across your stack and pipelines.

  2. If you installed it — respond

    artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.

  3. Did it already run?

    If artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 blocks artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.

Frequently asked questions

No. artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.1.1 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

2024-08-lab-artifacts-revshell

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)

Detect & block this

O3 blocks artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

artifact-lab-3-package-34b21b63 (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2024-12198 | O3 Security