Malicious Package Affecting pymafka package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYMAFKA-2841497
  • published23 May 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2022
  • creditAx Sharma

Introduced: 23 May 2022

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the pymafka package.

Overview

pymafka is a malicious package. This package uses "typosquatting" to bait unaware users to install it. This package contains malicious code in its setup.py file, which first detects the user's operation system (Windows, macOS, or Linux), then downloads and executes a trojan (Cobalt Strike beacon) accordingly.

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version 3.1