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Malicious MAL-2025-191785

matlab-cli

PyPI package · versions 0.3, 0.1, 0.2, 0.6, 0.4, 0.7, 0.5, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 1.0

Reported May 9, 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 (ff0a277d45885a5c1a26f027495e73b5e0aa8b49c7ee3eeafd06cc14e6e8f754)
Importing the module starts a reverse shell

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

Campaign: 2025-05-matlab-cli

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- impersonation

- The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

- obfuscation

Indicators of compromise

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