crazehubPyPI
Malicious code in crazehub (PyPI) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
crazehub/init.py performs multiple user-hostile actions at import time. Lines 2-3 unconditionally run os.system("pip install phonenumbers") and os.system("clear"), silently mutating the installer's Python environment and spawning shell commands without consent. Lines 18-26 fetch https://pastebin.com/raw/jkFG4kpy via urllib.request.urlopen to retrieve an author-mutable token list, then gate execution via an interactive input('>> ') prompt and sys.exit(0) on mismatch — breaking CI/automation and establishing a live, attacker-mutable remote-content channel that can be repurposed at any time. The package also captures hostname/IP and base64-encodes the IP (currently written only locally, but one paste-edit away from exfiltration). Metadata is placeholder (url='https://google.com', generic description). Any of import-time pip install, import-time shell exec, or mutable remote content driving control flow is independently sufficient to block; all three together make this a clear install/import-time RCE surface on the installer.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for crazehub (version 3.6.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging crazehub across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
crazehub 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 crazehub 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.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks crazehub 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.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks crazehub-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.