Malicious Package Affecting rfquests package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-RFQUESTS-3167294
  • published11 Dec 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2022
  • creditPhylum

Introduced: 11 Dec 2022

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the rfquests package.

Overview

rfquests is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code around typos of the Python requests package. The malicious code downloads ransomware Golang binaries. Executing these binaries attempts to encrypt files on the machine and changes the desktop background. A message asking for ransom for the decryption key can be found in the README file generated by the malware.

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