PROBABLY_PENTEST (1) campaign cataloged at 2026-02-12(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.
GENERIC-local-typosquatting¶
Package is a typosquatting or dependency confusion attempt with a low-harm local-only action, like leaving a flag file.
Abuse categories¶
dependency-confusion
An attempt to exploit dependency confusion
override_install
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
typosquatting
The package name is an typosquatting variant of a popular package.