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Malicious MAL-2025-191864

seclab-research-depconf-test-2

PyPI package · versions 1.0

Reported Aug 22, 2025 · Updated Dec 3, 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 (c4210a0224d23d330894d4d8e0f694f3c81a4fb7b71d5056636aecf98fd9b6f6)
Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm.

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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: GENERIC-simple-tests

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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