{"id":"MAL-2025-4665","summary":"Malicious code in grpc-google-bigtable-v2 (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (9640f0015404a6fff13b4e9bbb9e01d3d4f545a8ae8935dc95425a427c561576)\nGeneric campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - typosquatting\n\n## Source: ossf-package-analysis (ede9be184ad678c156e8b6fa9edc4acb9fba416bbb0f0a67b243da2476ea8e3f)\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'grpc-google-bigtable-v2' @ 0.11.99 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.\n","modified":"2025-12-12T20:39:51.703709Z","published":"2024-09-06T11:29:16Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2025-06-04T02:36:27.171815763Z","sha256":"ede9be184ad678c156e8b6fa9edc4acb9fba416bbb0f0a67b243da2476ea8e3f","source":"ossf-package-analysis","modified_time":"2025-06-04T02:35:49Z","versions":["0.11.99"]},{"versions":["0.11.99"],"import_time":"2025-08-01T10:07:11.662070103Z","sha256":"4133c2dfc12e97646c8cd2927d819ed1fdcd52656b080407a12b28d6295f9dd3","source":"reversing-labs","modified_time":"2025-07-31T19:15:14Z","id":"RLMA-2025-03611"},{"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.229261021Z","sha256":"fc0b270abbfe9d697c61881d94b198b88069a76825ca24a48d35425db14e9232","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-09-06T11:29:16Z","id":"pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/grpc-google-bigtable-v2"},{"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.250073677Z","sha256":"9640f0015404a6fff13b4e9bbb9e01d3d4f545a8ae8935dc95425a427c561576","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-09-06T11:29:16Z","id":"pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/grpc-google-bigtable-v2"},{"versions":["0.11.99"],"import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.515554212Z","sha256":"ebc6b767fb6cd105f3a0771ef6a2c27b3d89a4242abdd0654af36c5fc8dee3f9","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-09-06T11:29:16Z","id":"pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/grpc-google-bigtable-v2"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/grpc-google-bigtable-v2"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"grpc-google-bigtable-v2","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/grpc-google-bigtable-v2"},"versions":["0.11.99"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/grpc-google-bigtable-v2/MAL-2025-4665.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","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":"REPORTER"},{"name":"OpenSSF: Package Analysis","contact":["https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis","https://openssf.slack.com/channels/package_analysis"],"type":"FINDER"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}