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Malicious package

google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-clientPyPI

Advisory published Updated

google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-12279) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 9999, 99999999). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client (PyPI)

MAL-2024-12279
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client

What this malware does

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.

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: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

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.

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

Malicious versions

2 flagged
999999999999

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

78e2603982fe3e4eb29d1da111fc4abe760e23b2d162b35d7b04063dc91d7998
73ea760146181d2911e0823c121502506892b2e63d3fc20d6281fb2c86e03de8
8bc4c59155ce2dd5d2609c5bacfb1c32de2bbea1eace2ab28d560ba2df228bc1
043660360a686e9bd7c1190a91406c5aff3681ebae58721670e48c9ab8cfe47f
0716659b0ffbb5dd3f57243f53e63cdfae3725f7f870b2e1243a4f780142460a

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer

  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client (2 malicious versions).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client 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 google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client 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. google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (versions 9999, 99999999 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)

Detect & block this

O3 blocks google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client-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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