MAL-2024-11248

    Dashboard / Malicious Package / MAL-2024-11248

    MAL-2024-11248

    Published: 6 Sept 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in gwinpy (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (fdd3f3646435d9d7857a19999ffa38cdb99c04b4aa62177b1df6f2710b5412b3) 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 Source: ossf-package-analysis (7a402b93fab2d0ba3f8b49f3c4c5ec0d74b643021bb9b23ee79b819417203ff3) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'gwinpy' @ 9999.0.0 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/gwinpy

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gwinpy

    Purl: pkg:pypi/gwinpy

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    9999.0.0