Your RSA-2048 keys break in 2030. Find every one of them before attackers do.
Malicious package

cobo-custdoyPyPI

Malicious code in cobo-custdoy (PyPI) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

MAL-2024-12237
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall cobo-custdoy

What this malware does

It appears to be a forgotten pentest checking typosquatting against cobo-custody package, but may also have malicious purposes. During installation, if a machine is Mac, an obfuscated code attempts to download and execute a shell script. Currently, the server does not respond.

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2024-08-old-cobo-sectest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.

  • clones-real-package

  • crypto-related

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

  • obfuscation

  • typosquatting

Malicious versions

1 flagged
0.1

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

98dab70ba7fa041c334d8111fdca72c44082587ae31c06aea908b24a8c34d238
1bb6da528665b6d869e583cb594f1f0cc7e7ccaf8cc5a7a859c0db9e7fa80c19
6595e9aeeff235159a58718b78afd8b8616fa995d9b16f572a256930099fa19d

Detection & response playbook

Typosquat
  1. Find it

    Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for cobo-custdoy (version 0.1). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging cobo-custdoy across your stack and pipelines.

  2. If you installed it — respond

    cobo-custdoy is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove cobo-custdoy, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.

  3. Did it already run?

    If cobo-custdoy 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 cobo-custdoy 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. cobo-custdoy on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.1 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

2024-08-old-cobo-sectest

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)

Detect & block this

O3 blocks cobo-custdoy-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.

cobo-custdoy (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2024-12237 | O3 Security