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Malicious package

sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdhPyPI

Advisory published Updated

sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-10160) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh (PyPI)

MAL-2024-10160
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh

What this malware does

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: funcaptcha-ru

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • infostealer

Malicious versions

1 flagged
1.0.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

de7e85191375c04b4569db0c6900c476e8d872b305c8c2076d2685b8daf8d39e
a6f71daa0a90b6d5540221936884a22f18cc56973524283af4af298e2054ddb5
ad9c9ad0fe77fff4c0f86068a374a6abae12b08c23d470837f3a4a8df01648c2
08511f2dc1194a12f6269af2397d0b36c80517beb17ba286de59a264ee1aedf4

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh (version 1.0.0).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh 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 sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh 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. sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.0.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

RLMA-2024-09260funcaptcha-ru

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
  • ReversingLabs · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh-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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sghsuzeghuisehguihdrhffdhfdh (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2024-10160 | O3 Security