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Community
failIncident: Malware
Scanned: 2 days ago

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Artifact:
latest
removed
malicious
Research
Simple Scopper Library
License: unknown
Published: about 2 months ago



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 components prone to hijacking
Malware
1 analyst-vetted malware found

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

removal
about 20 hours agoReported By: Community
malware
N/AReported By: ReversingLabs (Researcher)
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Popularity

253
Total Downloads
Contributor
Declared Dependencies
0
Dependents

Top 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 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. Open source projects are the intellectual property of their respective authors. At any time, the authors may choose to completely remove the software component from a public repository. This often occurs when a software project reaches its end-of-life stage, or when the software authors lose interest in maintaining the project. This kind of removal frees up the software package name, its unique software identifier in the public repository, for other developers to use. However, new software project owners might have malicious intent. Threat actors are continuously monitoring popular package names in case their unique identifiers suddenly become available for hijacking. Once the software projects falls under new ownership, the new maintainers may opt to use the project popularity to spread malware to unsuspecting users.

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages
found in
Top 100
1 packages
found in
Top 1k
20 packages
found in
Top 10k
83.87k packages
in community

Next steps

Inspect behaviors exhibited by the detected software components.
If the software behaviors differ from expected, investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.
Revise the use of components that raise these alarms. If you can't deprecate those components, make sure that their versions are pinned.
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. 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

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

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.

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.

Top behaviors

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
69 packages
found in
Top 100
506 packages
found in
Top 1k
3612 packages
found in
Top 10k
163.85k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
found in
Top 100
6 packages
found in
Top 1k
46 packages
found in
Top 10k
2.42k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
68 packages
found in
Top 100
540 packages
found in
Top 1k
3680 packages
found in
Top 10k
150.76k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
68 packages
found in
Top 100
533 packages
found in
Top 1k
3858 packages
found in
Top 10k
146.15k packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
70 packages
found in
Top 100
472 packages
found in
Top 1k
4207 packages
found in
Top 10k
413.79k packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.