MAL-2024-9446

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    MAL-2024-9446

    Published: 6 Sept 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in flag-leak-r (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (88c1df06a02daf1a911f895df0bd495b0f0d2e72f3b9ad45fe5a837575379c9e) 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 (095f9908b28b3dfb45e9f5e8d291ad2492bb271f23e5f4b714328ba722252838) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'flag-leak-r' @ 0.1.0 (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/flag-leak-r

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: flag-leak-r

    Purl: pkg:pypi/flag-leak-r

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0