{"id":"MAL-2024-5326","summary":"Malicious code in libsocks5 (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (f9d745820f944dd4aaf916168db7546fdd4689ac873f85166e92e87329caa3f9)\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2023-11-update-information-endpoint\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - obfuscation\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - typosquatting\n","aliases":["SNYK-PYTHON-LIBSOCKS5-6139260"],"modified":"2026-03-19T12:54:28.745790Z","published":"2024-06-25T13:36:56Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"modified_time":"2024-06-25T13:36:56Z","sha256":"09951764d125cccafdedff570d8c1c23f5b758818f2a4ea86b0136a5e96c5906","source":"reversing-labs","versions":["1.7.4","1.7.0","1.1.1","1.7.3","1.7.2","1.7.1"],"id":"RLMA-2024-04108","import_time":"2024-06-28T02:49:21.705863052Z"},{"source":"reversing-labs","id":"RLUA-2024-08472","import_time":"2024-10-24T00:59:24.635618506Z","modified_time":"2024-10-16T14:43:15Z","sha256":"7b9c6e3863fb099d4f96269a21ae60faeb39f6c45a1829c7d8769feee39a61ae"},{"id":"pypi/2023-11-update-information-endpoint/libsocks5","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.310868335Z","modified_time":"2024-08-09T19:17:59Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"7abec419c903e1d92e16ac461f7341cf082938f35cb182b8979aab8e36890ef1","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"f9d745820f944dd4aaf916168db7546fdd4689ac873f85166e92e87329caa3f9","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2023-11-update-information-endpoint/libsocks5","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.337374149Z","modified_time":"2024-08-09T19:17:59Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}]},{"id":"pypi/2023-11-update-information-endpoint/libsocks5","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.571324518Z","modified_time":"2024-08-09T19:17:59Z","sha256":"3bc6b0fec4a6b3540f79ae0d408b8ef65f96121f5d7c5a0a9e8e0634870311a1","source":"kam193","versions":["1.7.1","1.7.0","1.7.2","1.7.3","1.1.1","1.7.4"]},{"id":"RLUA-2025-06573","import_time":"2025-12-24T10:07:36.658301737Z","modified_time":"2025-12-23T08:38:58Z","sha256":"4b82d3906b35e14e4078a8184b5d95d7d1e622ab655e6618a4601d3547663492","source":"reversing-labs"},{"sha256":"62ebf5035d67a23fcfe010910da67b449bb1a3ea0adc6342fa54f65533597135","source":"kam193","versions":["1.1.1","1.7.0","1.7.1","1.7.2","1.7.3","1.7.4"],"id":"pypi/2023-11-update-information-endpoint/libsocks5","import_time":"2025-12-30T22:39:04.120330781Z","modified_time":"2024-08-09T19:17:59Z"},{"import_time":"2026-03-19T12:19:59.583283645Z","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:15:36Z","sha256":"95d52f8935641ff1eddd16e3b9a6b96807a7d64453d25f30c3b3f267c7e490f3","source":"reversing-labs","id":"RLUA-2026-00471"}]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBSOCKS5-6139260"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://medium.com/checkmarx-security/python-packages-leverage-github-to-deploy-fileless-malware-b6c281dea58f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/libsocks5"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malware-leveraging-public-infrastructure-like-github-on-the-rise"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libsocks5","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/libsocks5"},"versions":["1.7.4","1.7.0","1.1.1","1.7.3","1.7.2","1.7.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/libsocks5/MAL-2024-5326.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"ANALYST"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}