PROBABLY_PENTEST (1) campaign cataloged at 2024-09-29(2).
- Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.
- This is just the date of creating the catalog entry. It may not reflect the date of creation of the campaign itself.
2024-09-pyprettifier¶
The pyprettifier library has a feature to send out the user home path throuh the logger. It's attached to the init of EmojiConverter class. Other related packages utilize a typosquatting to imitate real packages, and attempts to call the EmojiConverter from pyprettifier, triggering notifying the author about the user's home path.
Abuse categories¶
action-hidden-in-lib-usage
Campaign uses action-hidden-in-lib-usage.
basic_exfiltration
The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
through_dependency
The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package
typosquatting
Campaign uses typosquatting.