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Malicious package

fidnffvvbfhghghhhhPyPI

Advisory published Updated

fidnffvvbfhghghhhh is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-11596) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in fidnffvvbfhghghhhh (PyPI)

MAL-2024-11596
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall fidnffvvbfhghghhhh

What this malware does

Installing the package attempts to exfiltrate GCP tokens. As it uses a random names and/or targets specific accounts, it's most probably a (pen)test.

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: 2024-10-gal32fjdsbf89hnd-gcp-token

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-cloud-tokens

Malicious versions

1 flagged
1

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

c493c8a2a17805e485a28fff3ad823f4edf63ef77104e1d4e772085dccc15001
c391b41e9ea140e884922c2ea915a321d2896acb982e1ee624659ed51ee0e342
53e1b3f1fc19bbc10acfd813b8839f3831cc7624906c54a8ea4ca6a2d2706877
b5bad1ff673c0086337a4ced5b66c046ee5f39ad5eab4c879a3e03a7ef6c1128
f7f1dca84b7fff020c6d7f2f7af85d8cdea754c7f5587aeb1999769117923408

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for fidnffvvbfhghghhhh (version 1).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    fidnffvvbfhghghhhh 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 fidnffvvbfhghghhhh 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. fidnffvvbfhghghhhh on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 1 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

RLMA-2024-110472024-10-gal32fjdsbf89hnd-gcp-tokenRLUA-2026-00323

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
  • ReversingLabs · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks fidnffvvbfhghghhhh-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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