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Malicious package

artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154PyPI

Advisory published Updated

artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154 is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-12201) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154 (PyPI)

MAL-2024-12201
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154

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

3 flagged
0.1.10.1.20.2.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

a9275fd2e66c3cb8a487653f1ee18af4d57e06ef38c44a1bebd97a4a783b2377
6790c3a13c932def9b7e72c49a9efc861f0d5ec5d3187d11097dd51c8bb5b236
09e0f485b7840fe87569a554c32b231f7eb6cda1230098d54c34f97107678929
ec9b0ad9269697bd39e5793f97f83b523464e24004e940e1899e1089b6d5330f

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154 (3 malicious versions).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154 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-77d0c154 was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Frequently asked questions

No. artifact-lab-3-package-77d0c154 on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (versions 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0 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-77d0c154-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

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