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failIncident: Malware

Scanned:

karpatkey

Artifact:

latest

removed

malicious

Research

DeFi protocol integration toolkit

License: Permissive (MIT)

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

2 malware-like behaviors found

Malware

3 analyst-vetted malware found

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

malware

Reported By: Community (Snyk)

More info

malware

Reported By: Community (kam193)

More info

malware

Reported By: Community (OpenSSF)

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removal

Reported By: Community

malware

Reported By: Community (GitHub Advisory)

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malware

Reported By: ReversingLabs (Researcher)

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Overview issues7 vulnerabilities0 malware3 behaviors28 dependencies2 contributors1 versions1

Popularity

385

Total Downloads

Contributor

Declared Dependencies

Dependents

Top issues

See all issues

Problem

Threat researchers have manually inspected the software package and determined that it contains one or more malicious files. The detection was made by a hash-based file reputation lookup. This malware detection method is considered highly accurate, and can typically identify the malware family by name.

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

10 packages

found in

Top 10k

14.02k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

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. While most behaviors are benign, some are exclusively used by malicious software with the intent to cause harm. When a software package matches behavior traits of malicious software, it becomes flagged by security solutions. It is highly likely that the software package was tampered with by a malicious actor or a rogue insider. Detected threat type matches the behaviors typically exhibited by the infostealer malware profile. Infostealers are commonly used to steal sensitive user data such as stored login details, financial information, and other personally identifiable information.

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

3 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.05k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

Investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed.

In the case this behavior is intended, rewrite the flagged code without using the malware-like behaviors.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with sensitive parts of the runtime environment, often requiring privileged access to accomplish a task. Cloud workload configuration includes high-value information such as cloud provider credentials, environment variables containing secrets, and configuration files used by cloud and container orchestration tools. That information is used by applications running in cloud and containerized environments. Attackers often abuse access to cloud workload configuration to harvest secrets from developer machines and build environments, which can later be exfiltrated to attacker-controlled infrastructure and used to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. While the presence of code that accesses cloud workload configuration does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select software components should consider using functions that read cloud workload configuration. One example of acceptable use for such functions is infrastructure-as-code tooling that legitimately needs to read credentials to provision or manage cloud resources on behalf of the developer.

Prevalence in PyPI community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1580 - Cloud Infrastructure Discovery.

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 being the first to try out a new project 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

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

5 packages

found in

Top 10k

38.63k 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

Prevalence in PyPI community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

13 packages

found in

Top 1k

37 packages

found in

Top 10k

443.06k 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.

Top behaviors

See all behaviors

Prevalence in PyPI community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in PyPI community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in PyPI community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)

23 packages

found in

Top 100

129 packages

found in

Top 1k

1177 packages

found in

Top 10k

46.1k packages

in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)

36 packages

found in

Top 100

281 packages

found in

Top 1k

1802 packages

found in

Top 10k

66.4k packages

in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for karpatkey

What is karpatkey?

DeFi protocol integration toolkit.

Is karpatkey malicious or is it safe to use?

The Python package karpatkey has been removed from registry. It was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. Malware or tampering has been detected, making it unsafe to use. 2 other issues and risky behaviors were found. The package contains risks, and the analysis results should be reviewed before it is used. Visit the Issues and Behaviors sections of the analysis for more details. All versions of the karpatkey package were malicious.

Is karpatkey popular?

The Python package karpatkey is not widely used. It has 385 recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure karpatkey once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how karpatkey behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a karpatkey version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

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Popularity

385

Total Downloads

Contributor

Declared Dependencies

Dependents

Top issues

See all issues

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

10 packages

found in

Top 10k

14.02k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

3 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.05k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

Investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed.

In the case this behavior is intended, rewrite the flagged code without using the malware-like behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1580 - Cloud Infrastructure Discovery.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

0 packages

found in

Top 1k

5 packages

found in

Top 10k

38.63k 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

Prevalence in PyPI community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

13 packages

found in

Top 1k

37 packages

found in

Top 10k

443.06k 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.

Top behaviors

See all behaviors

Prevalence in PyPI community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in PyPI community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in PyPI community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)

23 packages

found in

Top 100

129 packages

found in

Top 1k

1177 packages

found in

Top 10k

46.1k packages

in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)

36 packages

found in

Top 100

281 packages

found in

Top 1k

1802 packages

found in

Top 10k

66.4k packages

in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

karpatkey

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

IMPORTANT: All versions of this package have been maliciousLatest version with malware incident detected: about 2 months agoVersion: 2.1.1

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

Popularity

Top issues

SQ30109Detected presence of malicious files through analyst-vetted file reputation.Causes risk: analyst-vetted malware foundthreats

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH15108Detected presence of files with behaviors that match the infostealer malware profile.Causes risk: malware-like behaviors foundhunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH16130Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive cloud workload configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH30105Detected presence of software components that were recently published to the public package repository.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH30106Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Reads from version control configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PyPI community

Reads from container management or orchestration configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PyPI community

Reads from cloud provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PyPI community

Connects through HTTP.network

Prevalence in PyPI community

Encodes data using the Base64 algorithm.packer

Prevalence in PyPI community

Top vulnerabilities

FAQ for karpatkey

What is karpatkey?

Is karpatkey malicious or is it safe to use?

Is karpatkey popular?

How do I secure karpatkey once it is in my app?

Did you know...

Popularity

Top issues

SQ30109Detected presence of malicious files through analyst-vetted file reputation.Causes risk: analyst-vetted malware foundthreats

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH15108Detected presence of files with behaviors that match the infostealer malware profile.Causes risk: malware-like behaviors foundhunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH16130Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive cloud workload configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH30105Detected presence of software components that were recently published to the public package repository.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

TH30106Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Reads from version control configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PyPI community

Reads from container management or orchestration configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PyPI community

Reads from cloud provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PyPI community

Connects through HTTP.network

Prevalence in PyPI community

Encodes data using the Base64 algorithm.packer

Prevalence in PyPI community