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MALICIOUS (1) campaign cataloged at 2025-03-01(2).

  1. The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
  2. This is just the date of creating the catalog entry. It may not reflect the date of creation of the campaign itself.

2025-02-pydefender

setup.py is prepared to download and run an obfuscated batch script. While the script is not detected by any AV currently, in the sandbox analysis it reveals behaviour like adding exclusions to Windows Defender

Abuse categories

malware

Campaign uses malware.

override_install

The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

remote_script

Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

References

Referenced resources may include blog posts about the campaign, malware analysis, sandbox reports, or other relevant information.

URLs with payloads, characteristic domains, C&C IPs, repositories with malicious code, etc.

  • hxxps://raw.githubusercontent.com/baledreamer/payload/refs/heads/main/smegma.bat

Packages in the campaign

campaign:2025-02-pydefender