Malicious code in urlllib321 (PyPI)

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Source: kam193 (376c7a8609fa48f74e0229f95c4fe5a4e4a4c94e923da4ed11e8a1f475807127)

Package is a typosquatting or dependency confusion attempt with a low-harm local-only action, like leaving a flag file.

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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-local-typosquatting

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• dependency-confusion

• The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

• typosquatting