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Malicious package

artifact-lab-3-package-d7d52d45PyPI

Advisory published Updated

artifact-lab-3-package-d7d52d45 is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-12203) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 0.1.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in artifact-lab-3-package-d7d52d45 (PyPI)

MAL-2024-12203
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall artifact-lab-3-package-d7d52d45

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)

ff144eb87f68621d43d10ba774b701836cc1dd9df7b27bc0036459c92edcbd85
a252566eebeb4e8bc418b7ed0e585a4fee2602d921969b20b4075ec5df8d50fa
c7b131d7c46e03cad39043883e7dac13ff73007d32fabb2f5c1a2468d9706082

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for artifact-lab-3-package-d7d52d45 (version 0.1.1).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    artifact-lab-3-package-d7d52d45 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-d7d52d45 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-d7d52d45 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-d7d52d45-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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