MAL-2024-11540

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    MAL-2024-11540

    Published: 20 Sept 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in botoceor (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (8bf39054053dfe99fc83c836bb407659d11241cc09f2572a72524d980b9c5914) During installation, a cryptominer is secretly installed and started. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2024-09-bondonioanderas-cryptominer Reasons (based on the campaign): - cryptominer - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - obfuscation

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: botoceor

    Purl: pkg:pypi/botoceor

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1