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Malicious MAL-2025-191805

nspacercesolve

PyPI package · versions 0.0.7, 0.0.6, 0.0.5, 0.0.4, 0.0.3, 0.0.2, 0.0.1

Reported Nov 22, 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 (8a8c6f18d1f22d3d0f0b9902a176d91fdfe33270faea47c835a0078955b85914)
During installation, the package looks for a flag file and exfiltrates it. Similar content is in the __main__ file. There is no other purpose of the package

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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2025-11-nspacercesolve

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

- other

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Indicators of compromise

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

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