Malicious Package

Overview boto4 is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship...

Malicious code in boto4 (PyPI)

Source: kam193 b928f1f0d3af6242391cc626a8601d24f60c70d862bfebe6cfe0777c13a8c0b2 During installation, package executes an embedded executable. The executable is capable of executing remote commands, establishing persistence, cryptomining, exfiltrating basic data, further network scanning and...

MAL-2026-14349 Malicious code in boto4 (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d3f621c5e2e8e94d1c8ae2ae176d4d882711536d25199df7a1cdddd410214faa setup.py defines a custom setuptools install command EjecutaElf that base64-decodes a 17MB embedded Linux ELF, writes it to /tmp/.systemd-helper,...

Malicious code in boto4 (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d3f621c5e2e8e94d1c8ae2ae176d4d882711536d25199df7a1cdddd410214faa setup.py defines a custom setuptools install command EjecutaElf that base64-decodes a 17MB embedded Linux ELF, writes it to /tmp/.systemd-helper,...