MaliciousPickles

Some examples of Malicious Pickles

TextEmbedding.pt

Stollen from https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/models/tacotron2_ljspeech/files I picked this because it's small and an exmaple of pickles being stacked. This is the "assumed" benign sample

Loading the pickle

import pickle
f  = open("TextEmbedding.pt",'rb')
pickle.load(f)
pickle.load(f)
pickle.load(f)
import pickletools
pickletools.dis(f) # this doesn't execute the pickle, but advances the file pointer past a part that rquires a special library
pickle.load(f)

fickling_system_calc.pt

This is what is created by fickling -i "exec('import os; os.system(\"calc\")')" TextEmbedding.pt > fickling_system_calc.pt. It will launch calc when the pickle is loaded. Note: Fickling by default only opens the first pickle, so most of the original is lost. This is tracked by trailofbits/fickling#20

> fickling -s fickling_system_calc.pt
Call to `eval(...)` is almost certainly evidence of a malicious pickle file

coldwaterq_inject_calc.pt

This is what is created using my inject.py that I released durring a presentation I did at DefCon. python ..\PICKLE_INJECTOR\inject.py TextEmbedding.pt coldwaterq_inject_calc.pt test.py will show an error, at position 449, opcode b'\x00' unknown this is because the end of the file isn't a pickle, but I haven't bothered to figure out what it is, because everything before that is a pickle that can be injected into.

> fickling -s coldwaterq_inject_calc.pt
Warning: Fickling failed to detect any overtly unsafe code, but the pickle file may still be unsafe.

Do not unpickle this file if it is from an untrusted source!

You can see that this isn't detected because fickling is only checking the first pickle since the next one is caught.

coldwaterq_inject_first_calc.pt

inject.py was modified to ensure the malicious code was injected into the fist pickle. But essentially python ..\PICKLE_INJECTOR\inject.py TextEmbedding.pt coldwaterq_inject_first_calc.pt test.py was used and everything was the same as coldwaterq_inject_calc.pt.