Poisoned Pipeline / Incidents / AS264
ssh-decorate PyPI releases stole SSH credentials
Catalogued from the tstromberg supplychain-attack-data dataset
(community-curated incident corpus). Included because first-party
sources exist for it; see the links below — vendor advisories, project
incident reports, and researcher write-ups. Not based on aggregator
coverage.
Mapped techniques
- T0172 Runtime backdoor
- T0184 Harvesting sensitive information from files
- T0121 Compromised legitimate artifact
- T0109 Publish malicious artifact
supply-chain campaign
Backdoor/RAT payload documented by the cited sources.
Credential or wallet material targeted.
Published package versions carried the payload.
Named in the tstromberg supplychain-attack-data corpus with first-party references.
Sources
- https://securityaffairs.com/72298/malware/ssh-decorator-backdoor.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8hvzja/backdoor_in_sshdecorator_package/
- https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2018/05/10/researchers-found-backdoor-python-library-steal-ssh-credentials/
- https://data.safetycli.com/packages/pypi/ssh-decorate/