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Malicious MAL-2025-191745

gtts-lts

PyPI package · versions 2.5.8, 2.5.7, 2.5.6, 2.5.5, 2.5.4, 2.5.3, 2.5.2, 2.5.1

Reported Sep 15, 2025 · Updated Dec 31, 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 (7cfb789704a149f7b741d0c68fcb8a32a1e189444ca36f97e435e59d04e073b8)
During the execution, the package silently download and runs a JAR not related to the package job. At the time of analysis, the content was corrupted

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

Campaign: 2025-09-gtts-lts

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- action-hidden-in-lib-usage

Indicators of compromise

Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.

URLs

  • hxxps://github[.]com/michalethernatg/symmetrical-octo-parakeet/raw/refs/heads/main/meow[.]bin other packages →
  • hxxps://github[.]com/michalethernatg/symmetrical-octo-parakeet/raw/refs/heads/main/shell[.]exe other packages →