browser-run

{"modified":"2025-12-03T00:04:26Z","published":"2025-08-14T16:16:45Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2025-191696","summary":"Malicious code in browser-run (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (3b45aebce3647704ac54d30a38e86493e0246f9ea44131394f84628656ef00ed)\nPackage uses the name as popular NPM package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-run), but the only thing it does is adding a hardcoded public SSH key and then calling back. This may allow the threat actor to remotely access the machine.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-08-browser-run\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - backdoor\n\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n","affected":[{"package":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"browser-run"},"versions":["0.1.0","0.2.0","0.3.0"]}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/browser-run"}],"credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","type":"REPORTER","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]}],"database_specific":{"iocs":{"ips":["18.144.73.108"],"urls":["http://18.144.73.108:3000/add-sshkey"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"source":"kam193","sha256":"2cf8be6641fd96523c535fa60b1e795826587df33aeb93952a02a3cfa6061c35","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.017673593Z","id":"pypi/2025-08-browser-run/browser-run","modified_time":"2025-08-14T17:38:42.538567Z","versions":["0.1.0","0.2.0","0.3.0"]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"3b45aebce3647704ac54d30a38e86493e0246f9ea44131394f84628656ef00ed","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.036121515Z","id":"pypi/2025-08-browser-run/browser-run","modified_time":"2025-08-14T17:38:42.538567Z","versions":["0.1.0","0.2.0","0.3.0"]}]}}