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Incident detail

criticalpypi·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in asdk-plugin-alphagen (PyPI)

asdk-plugin-alphagen

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for asdk-plugin-alphagen (pypi).

Description

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.

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'asdk-plugin-alphagen' @ 9999.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

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

Technical details

Affected versions

=0.0.1=9999.0.0

Indicators

  • affected version=0.0.175%
  • affected version=9999.0.075%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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