MAL-2024-12280

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/google-play-store/MAL-2024-12280.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2024-12280
Published
2024-10-01T11:25:46Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:39:45.575636Z
Summary
Malicious code in google-play-store (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (b0f8bc12f61546bde84dd1d7a64519fcdc55ce875b71f3d8d848d2d5daa2248d)

This is a copy of https://pypi.org/project/play-scraper/ with added a very questionable "telemetry": in scraper.py, L90 sends the user hostname, IP and the exact local ID of scraped application to the package author.

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: 2024-09-old-google-play-store

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

  • dependency-confusion

  • action-hidden-in-lib-usage

  • clones-real-package

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "domains": [
            "aliniami.atwebpages.com"
        ],
        "urls": [
            "http://aliniami.atwebpages.com/google.php"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2024-09-old-google-play-store/google-play-store",
            "modified_time": "2024-10-01T11:25:46Z",
            "sha256": "c0bd156480300a5c7b9a72d9863c6a67c8e1b9dcc0d9339fb5816d40e63a4a41",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.068591915Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2024-09-old-google-play-store/google-play-store",
            "modified_time": "2024-10-01T11:25:46Z",
            "sha256": "b0f8bc12f61546bde84dd1d7a64519fcdc55ce875b71f3d8d848d2d5daa2248d",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.258989396Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2024-09-old-google-play-store/google-play-store",
            "modified_time": "2024-10-01T11:25:46Z",
            "sha256": "f7f8c5c260db753b5480b4805737ac76d2e8ea89ba3ec410762eadfc5a788a9d",
            "versions": [
                "0.6.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.400691486Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / google-play-store

Package

Name
google-play-store
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/google-play-store

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.6.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/google-play-store/MAL-2024-12280.json"