mal-2024-10034
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2024-09-06 11:29
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in hello-world-package-test (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (8ee148c559a9993ef0660c9183434ff59d2f6430a126a5913ef9a8341b9014ff)

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-generic

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

  • typosquatting


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "hello-world-package-test",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/hello-world-package-test"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "REPORTER"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2024-08342",
        "import_time": "2024-10-24T00:56:59.995653707Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-10-16T14:41:53Z",
        "sha256": "8834c383b898763df77528490f8fde69de2d37271a28963d4a36b8a2dec2169a",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "0.1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/hello-world-package-test",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.238525441Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "6ec758ec3e5857bd09d1962efe779fe1970d838a21ee03a1c2a51854c7aa595d",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/hello-world-package-test",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.260651224Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "8ee148c559a9993ef0660c9183434ff59d2f6430a126a5913ef9a8341b9014ff",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/hello-world-package-test",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.523230752Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
        "sha256": "1ec67dd8dc68984872516a4e3db57466c58af4c282ddeaf8f32615221944471f",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (8ee148c559a9993ef0660c9183434ff59d2f6430a126a5913ef9a8341b9014ff)\nGeneric campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - typosquatting\n",
  "id": "MAL-2024-10034",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:53Z",
  "published": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hello-world-package-test"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in hello-world-package-test (PyPI)"
}


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