{"id":"MAL-2026-4753","summary":"Malicious code in gt-tester-exp-profiler-exp-00000017 (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (f1490f970bd52c80c89f33029f9e875f1fb595014621d50e0ce87a167d1cd348)\nsetup.py installs a site-wide.pth file (gt_tester_exp_profiler_exp_00000017_probe.pth) into site-packages that imports the package's probe module and calls run_probe() at every Python interpreter startup. probe.py performs a plaintext HTTP GET to the bare IP 104.236.116.157 with a per-call random hex tag, fingerprinting the installer's machine to a third party on every Python invocation — not just when the package is explicitly imported. The User-Agent string claims an 'Academic research study' but no consent is obtained at install or runtime. Package metadata is a generic placeholder with no author, homepage, or publisher identification, and the destination is a bare IP not associated with any declared publisher. The.pth mechanism converts what would be an import-time call into persistent host beaconing across every CI job, virtualenv activation, and script execution on the machine.\n","modified":"2026-05-26T06:03:10.642359627Z","published":"2026-05-22T08:57:49Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"f1490f970bd52c80c89f33029f9e875f1fb595014621d50e0ce87a167d1cd348","versions":["1.0.0"],"modified_time":"2026-05-22T08:57:49Z","import_time":"2026-05-26T05:52:05.002493938Z","id":"IN-MAL-2026-004175","source":"amazon-inspector"}]},"references":[{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/gt-tester-exp-profiler-exp-00000017/1.0.0/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gt-tester-exp-profiler-exp-00000017","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/gt-tester-exp-profiler-exp-00000017"},"versions":["1.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/gt-tester-exp-profiler-exp-00000017/MAL-2026-4753.json","cwes":[{"description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.","cweId":"CWE-506","name":"Embedded Malicious Code"}],"indicators":{"evidence_files":[{"sha256":"aaa072a2ff382a2b6b2f6f78238cca5adf7df834728f9f1ca8e62d8696c1cfb0","tlsh":"8301d0d7e8132063d347c8bea781d9117bab79d7a9ca5570b8ce16340fc1934c071453","path":"gt_tester_exp_profiler_exp_00000017/probe.py"},{"sha256":"e841740885ed0b6a30409e2b101dc9a1a1fcf5d0b9de8b2109c69ef43a306022","tlsh":"c0f02b0ec15ba0a5fe66db345da368115be5f9430ee8c650b0ff091057ab1a24446887","path":"setup.py"}],"package_integrity":[{"filename":"gt_tester_exp_profiler_exp_00000017-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl","hashes":{"sha256":"79648ff4e0f6c6bb288a0cc583365f057a15891b9753024711a5ad80ad914048","md5":"69ae2b5c388858dc053e0b45cb95d8f3","blake2b_256":"1362b73d90d05567c378d61b86b707fda87959ade67b46fd5be864d5e7855e1b"}},{"filename":"gt_tester_exp_profiler_exp_00000017-1.0.0.tar.gz","hashes":{"sha256":"f0599e072de08b1f730a2e4c2b6dcd244db1faa218c5122639ce082f2dd0b4d8","md5":"fe8f210ac4634809c9fa20957a597c5f","blake2b_256":"4ea2ddbccd866092c5f67cf7f0e28a4f85ce3ce7a63f055234434405d76874ac"}}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["actran@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}