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Malicious code in company-sdk (PyPI)

Malware Published Sep 3, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database

Package

pip company-sdk (pip)

Affected versions

= 0.0.1

Patched versions

None

Description

Source: amazon-inspector (46a5156bc1c582f0be8c1c33340b338cba12276dd9ea90235210fbc2ff950c85)

company_sdk.py executes credential-harvesting code at module import time. It walks the installer's home directory reading SSH keys (/.ssh), cloud credentials (/.aws, ~/.azure, /.config/gcloud), package manager tokens (/.npmrc, ~/.pypirc, ~/.netrc, ~/.pgpass), Docker/Kube configs,.env files, Vault/Terraform tokens, and shell history, and enumerates process environment variables whose names match credential keywords (TOKEN, SECRET, KEY, PASSWORD, AWS_, GITHUB_, etc.). The collected material is gzip-compressed, XOR-encrypted with a keystream derived via PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 from a hardcoded 32-byte hex passphrase, HMAC-tagged, and base64-encoded. The drop() function then POSTs the encrypted blob to https://api.github.com/gists using a hardcoded ghp-prefixed GitHub Personal Access Token as the Bearer credential, with TLS verification explicitly disabled (ssl.CERT_NONE). The upload runs unconditionally on import inside a bare try/except so failures are silent. Using GitHub Gist as the drop channel routes the exfiltration through a domain that typically bypasses egress filtering, and encrypting the payload with an author-only key conceals contents from network inspection.

Source: kam193 (f4b45f8532bf4a1b0b6a1b987a12b2ab7e4b626351b48bfffb159beed150983e)

During import, package exfiltrates sensitive files, credentials and env variables to a private GitHub Gist.


Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2026-09-company-sdk

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • files-exfiltration

  • exfiltration-credentials

  • exfiltration-ssh-keys


Credit: OpenSSF (source)

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 3, 2026
Reviewed Sep 3, 2026

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Embedded Malicious Code

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature. Learn more on MITRE.

GHSA ID

GHSA-xwp3-c9rw-wggc

Source code

No known source code
Improvements are not currently accepted on this advisory because this package is malware and has no patched versions. If there is something to change, please open an issue at https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues.