Spectra Assure

failRisk: Tampering

Scanned:

cittronn

Artifact:

latest

License: unknown

Published:

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering

1 dangerous install procedures

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

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List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

Policies

Info

Problem

Most software applications use standardized installation formats for their distribution. Software installers are built from instructions written within installation scripts that act as blueprints for the distribution format assembly. Installation scripts declare the most important software properties, such as the default installation location, its external dependencies, and various actions that may occur during the installation process. Actions defined within the installation script are executed automatically during events such as software deployment, update, or removal. These events are used by software developers to set up the environment for nominal software use, or to perform cleanup upon software removal. It is unusual for certain types of software installers to invoke commands that download additional content from a remote server. Attackers commonly abuse software installers to fetch malicious payloads from public code repositories, file sharing websites, or their own infrastructure. Remotely hosted content is not immutable, allowing the attackers to change the type of malware they deploy at any time.

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

8 packages

found in

Top 10k

4.89k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the installation procedure without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components contain executable code that performs actions implemented during its development. These actions are called behaviors. In the analysis report, behaviors are presented as human-readable descriptions that best match the underlying code intent. Python Package Index (PyPI) repository is often abused by threat actors to publish software packages that exhibit malicious behaviors. Malware authors use numerous tactics to lure developers into including malicious PyPI packages in their software projects. Most malicious packages published on PyPI target developers and their workstations. However, some are designed to activate only when deployed in the end-user environment. Both types of Python malicious packages are detected by proprietary ReversingLabs threat hunting algorithms. This detection method is considered proactive, and it is based on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that can detect novel malware. The detection is strongly influenced by behaviors that software components exhibit. Behaviors similar to previously discovered malware and software supply chain attacks may cause some otherwise benign software packages to be detected by this policy.

Prevalence in PyPI community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

18 packages

found in

Top 1k

104 packages

found in

Top 10k

16.5k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Applications communicate with web services by exchanging HTTP requests. During software development, externally hosted services are used by developers to debug software quality issues relating to exchanging HTTP requests. Attackers commonly abuse tools designed for HTTP request inspection to monitor network traffic and extract sensitive information from the HTTP traffic. While the presence of domains related to HTTP inspection does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Attackers might have purposely injected security testing tools in the software package to monitor the network traffic of the infected computer system. It is also possible that the software package has mistakenly included a part of its testing infrastructure during packaging.

Prevalence in PyPI community

11 packages

found in

Top 100

41 packages

found in

Top 1k

239 packages

found in

Top 10k

11.68k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider removing all references to flagged network locations.

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

20 packages

found in

Top 100

92 packages

found in

Top 1k

907 packages

found in

Top 10k

43.88k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community. it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of using components that are rarely used to build applications lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in PyPI community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

11 packages

found in

Top 1k

910 packages

found in

Top 10k

717.09k packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Open source communities depend on the work of thousands of software developers that volunteer their time to maintain software components. Software developers build up the reputation of their open source projects by developing in public. Modern source code repositories have many social features that allow software developers to handle bug reports, have discussions with their users, and convey reaching significant project milestones. It is uncommon to find open source projects that omit linking their component to a publicly accessible source code repository.

Prevalence in PyPI community

70 packages

found in

Top 100

472 packages

found in

Top 1k

4207 packages

found in

Top 10k

413.79k packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

Did you know...

TH16603Detected presence of software installers with unusual networking functionality.Causes risk: dangerous install procedureshunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH15501Detected presence of files with behaviors similar to malicious packages published on PyPI.Causes risk: suspicious application behaviorshunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

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TH17131Detected presence of files containing domains used for intercepting and inspecting HTTP requests.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

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TH15103Detected presence of files with behaviors commonly used by malicious software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

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TH30107Detected presence of software components that are rarely included by other public software packages.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

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TH30112Detected presence of software components without a declared source code repository.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps