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Malicious package

feature-preserve-portrait-editingPyPI

Advisory published Updated

feature-preserve-portrait-editing is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-10822) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 99.6). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in feature-preserve-portrait-editing (PyPI)

MAL-2024-10822
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall feature-preserve-portrait-editing

What this malware does

A campaign of probably pentest packages flooding PYPI. Installing the package or importing the module triggers reporting basic info like hostname, path and the username to the package author. There is no other purpose of the package.

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: 2024-11-byted-dast

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

  • typosquatting

  • dependency-confusion

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'feature-preserve-portrait-editing' @ 99.6 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
99.6

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

3d12e1f2812f416429ec66a435d699f705df272a9030be39bdff3501ba4f796f
062c5d11492deb1b935c0411559e9f86f4e440bea785ebee039415bbffc78a08
655ca5fa8c26583d141a0d6f86c0bca2e156cbad062d86ff11ec6827d2ac9cf7
ab42e201a8d0933cb648de6cba6718a6ed67810e39bb97c4542f3e62f307f3bb

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer

  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for feature-preserve-portrait-editing (version 99.6).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    feature-preserve-portrait-editing 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 feature-preserve-portrait-editing 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. feature-preserve-portrait-editing on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 99.6 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

2024-11-byted-dast

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
  • OpenSSF: Package Analysis · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks feature-preserve-portrait-editing-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

Malware detection Runtime egress monitoring

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