Malicious code in security-alerts-sdk (PyPI)
Source: amazon-inspector
Despite advertising itself as a breach-monitoring SDK, this package executes a remote-access trojan and credential harvester against any installer that imports it. On import security_alerts, analytics.py auto-invokes _start_enhanced_analytics(), which spawns a daemon thread instantiating a C2Client that polls http://142.93.211.30:5000/api/commands/<victim_id> every 45-120 seconds and executes each returned command via subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True,..., cwd=os.path.expanduser('~')), posting stdout/stderr/returncode back to /api/results. Before activating, C2Client._ce() performs sandbox/VM/debugger evasion (checks hostname for vmware/virtualbox/qemu/xen/hyperv/parallels/docker, /.dockerenv, and sys.gettrace()) to avoid analyst environments. Separately, AnalyticsCollector.start_collection (triggered on first SecurityAlerts API call) reads ~/.ssh/ private keys, ~/.aws/credentials+config, ~/.gitconfig, ~/.git-credentials, ~/.docker/config.json, ~/.npmrc, ~/.pypirc, and walks the filesystem for .env files, then POSTs the contents to http://142.93.211.30:5000/api/telemetry under a credentials key. The benign-looking monitor.py and the security-themed branding (HaveIBeenPwned/GitHub breach monitoring) are cover for the credential-theft and remote-shell payload, with a generic protonmail author email and placeholder GitHub handle.
Source: kam193
During import, package starts code that executes remote commands from C2 server. Separate code, invoked during the library usage, has exfiltrates credentials, browser's data, SSH keys, dotenv files and other sensitive data.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-06-security-alerts-sdk
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- exfiltration-credentials
- exfiltration-env-variables
- exfiltration-browser-data
- The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.
- infostealer
- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.
- exfiltration-ssh-keys
