Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious NuGet package that masquerades as a C# software development kit for Sicoob, one of Brazil's largest cooperative financial systems, to siphon client IDs and PFX certificates.
According to Socket, versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.4 of "Sicoob.Sdk" contain functionality to exfiltrate sensitive information, including PFX certificates that are used to authenticate businesses with the Sicoob banking network in order to automate banking operations, such as processing instant payments and generating dynamic Pix QR codes. The package is estimated to have been downloaded nearly 500 times.
"When a developer instantiates SicoobClient with a client ID, a PFX file path, and a PFX password, the package reads the PFX file from disk, Base64-encodes its contents, and sends the supplied client ID, PFX password, and encoded PFX data to a hardcoded third-party Sentry endpoint," security researcher Kirill Boychenko said.
In addition, the package is designed to capture raw Boleto API responses via a separate Sentry path. Boleto is a popular cash payment method in Brazil for making online and offline purchases. This can potentially expose sensitive transaction details, payment status, amounts, due dates, identifiers, and payer or payee data.
