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[PSA] Malware distributed on the AUR (lists.archlinux.org)

submitted 3 days ago by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AUR package was uploaded to the AUR. Two other malicious packages were uploaded by the same user a few hours later. These packages were installing a script coming from the same GitHub repository that was identified as a Remote Access Trojan (RAT).

The affected malicious packages are:

librewolf-fix-bin

firefox-patch-bin

zen-browser-patched-bin

The Arch Linux team addressed the issue as soon as they became aware of the situation. As of today, 18th of July, at around 6pm UTC+2, the offending packages have been deleted from the AUR.

We strongly encourage users that may have installed one of these packages to remove them from their system and to take the necessary measures in order to ensure they were not compromised.

Follow up

There are more packages with this malware found.

minecraft-cracked
ttf-ms-fonts-all
vesktop-bin-patched
ttf-all-ms-fonts

What to do

If you installed any of these packages, check your running processes for one named systemd-initd (this is the RAT).

The suspicious packages have a patch from this now-inaccessible Codeberg repo: https://codeberg.org/arch_lover3/browser-patch

The Arch maintainers have been informed of all this already and are investigating.

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[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i don't use arch (btw).

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is technically not Arch's fault btw. I use Arch but don't use AUR for this reason

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also same problem adding random PPA's on Debian and Ubuntu.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

Agreed. Or piping random curl things into sh. Or downloading random exes on Windows etc

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

it was a joke. perhaps a /s was warranted. it could happen in any package manager/repo and I'd be surprised if it hasn't yet.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

It has already happened a few times with other repos. Although AUR is especially susceptible because there's no vetting at all, it's a free-for-all that everyone can publish to within a few clicks. This will for sure happen again within a couple months, but better hidden the next time.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Oh definitely, I wasn't trying to correct you or anything. Just having conversation