MAL-2024-12239

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    MAL-2024-12239

    Published: 7 Sept 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in cobo-python (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (2f1c1c4efd134e130c04178382ff3ea318301fb18b5eb6eed696c49cf64e9ad6) It appears to be a forgotten pentest checking typosquatting against cobo-custody package, but may also have malicious purposes. During installation, if a machine is Mac, an obfuscated code attempts to download and execute a shell script. Currently, the server does not respond. 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: 2024-08-old-cobo-sectest Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - clones-real-package - crypto-related - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - obfuscation - typosquatting

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cobo-python

    Purl: pkg:pypi/cobo-python

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1
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