artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4PyPI
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artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4 is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-8023) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 0.1.1, 0.1.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4 (PyPI)
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):
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The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.
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The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
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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-b6920ef4' @ 0.1.1 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4 (2 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4 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.
Did it already run?
If artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4 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
Campaign
References
Credits
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
- OpenSSF: Package Analysis · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks artifact-lab-3-package-b6920ef4-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.