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Malicious MAL-2025-191685

avatar-handler

PyPI package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Jul 17, 2025 · Updated Dec 12, 2025

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: kam193 (c3750cf8fac7fc22334d1fb416e7f3af691425c669829dcc9857abdc1384bbb7)
Code pretending to handling downloading an image, but in fact is prepared to download and execute a Powershell script image properties. No known usage

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-07-avatar-handler

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- obfuscation

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.