PROBABLY_PENTEST (1) campaign cataloged at 2026-10-13(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.
2026-10-crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d¶
Package attempts to collect environment variables from a specific environment, self-identified as BigQuery user-defined functions research. The final exfiltration of collected data seems to require the control of the execution environment, supporting the research/pentest claims.
Abuse categories¶
abuses-pth
The package uses .pth files, sitecustomize or usercustomize modules to execute malicious code during Python startup, even without importing the package code manually.
basic_exfiltration
The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
exfiltration_env_variables
Campaign uses exfiltration_env_variables.