MALICIOUS (1) package from Python Package Index.
- The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
pyapiepo¶
- Metadata(1) Check in pypi-data project
- Affected versions(2) unspecified
- May not be available. See more in pypi-json-data repository.
- Version numbers are currently not tracked. Assume all versions are affected.
Campaign data¶
Campaign information may not always be 100% accurate for every related package.
Campaign description
Campaign is split into multiple packages that altogether exfiltrates data from desktop Telegram application.
- "pyapiepo" is a cover package that provides some useless features BUT also imports "zscaner"
- "zscaner", when imported, automatically runs a function that is an entry point to the whole process; it uses the "scan" from "reqinstall" to walk through directories. The package also provides main logic: filtering files, triggering archiving directories and exfiltrating them.
- "reqinstall" ensures "requests" are installed and provides a directory tree scanning function.
- "zmaker" provides functions to build archives from collected files.
- "zsender" provides functions to exfiltrate data, the remote URL and a function to deobfuscate configuration in other packages.
Altogether, they look for "Telegram Desktop" folder, archive user data stored there and exfiltrate to a remote location.
See more details on the campaign page.
exfiltration_generic
Campaign targets exfiltration_generic.
target:telegram
Campaign targets target:telegram.
through_dependency
The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package