mal-2024-12362
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2024-08-19 09:59
Modified
2025-12-12 12:13
Summary
Malicious code in thethreadingassistant (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (762eff7d2ce4176f6050d35736ba93b5853e8519e760522372aced785a146e59)

Infostealer exfiltrating cookies, history and passwords from the Google Chrome browser, as well as attempting to do a webcam photo. Data are sent to a Discord webhook. Malicious code is split over multiple files.


Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2024-08-old-threading-assistant

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • infostealer

  • typosquatting




{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "thethreadingassistant"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "REPORTER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "pypi/2024-08-old-threading-assistant/thethreadingassistant",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.642710688Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-08-19T09:59:22Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "933214ae39aa7ac178fdde217bad935d1d5eb198f5653e21a63fcce084b9aaa9",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2024-08-old-threading-assistant/thethreadingassistant",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.684487575Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-08-19T09:59:22Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "762eff7d2ce4176f6050d35736ba93b5853e8519e760522372aced785a146e59",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2024-08-old-threading-assistant/thethreadingassistant",
        "import_time": "2025-12-12T12:11:30.635705921Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-08-19T09:59:22Z",
        "sha256": "4a0a34ab0698ce2ea2dc7b609d5f43bc7eedbac2d0e946467f37ebdf5554fcd4",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (762eff7d2ce4176f6050d35736ba93b5853e8519e760522372aced785a146e59)\nInfostealer exfiltrating cookies, history and passwords from the Google Chrome browser, as well as attempting to do a webcam photo. Data are sent to a Discord webhook. Malicious code is split over multiple files.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2024-08-old-threading-assistant\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - infostealer\n\n\n - \n\n\n - typosquatting\n",
  "id": "MAL-2024-12362",
  "modified": "2025-12-12T12:13:06Z",
  "published": "2024-08-19T09:59:22Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/thethreadingassistant"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in thethreadingassistant (PyPI)"
}


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