cobo-python@0.1
Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev October 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM UTC
OSV ID
MAL-2024-12239
Ecosystem
pypi
Summary
It appears to be a forgotten pentest checking typosquatting against cobo-custody package, but may also have malicious purposes. During installation, if a machine is Mac, an obfuscated code attempts to download and execute a shell script. Currently, the server does not respond. --- Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities. Campaign: 2024-08-old-cobo-sectest Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - clones-real-package - crypto-related - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - obfuscation - typosquatting
Source: kam193 (2f1c1c4efd134e130c04178382ff3ea318301fb18b5eb6eed696c49cf64e9ad6)
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