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Malicious MAL-2025-192579

smtblib

PyPI package · versions 0.1.8, 0.1.9

Reported Dec 15, 2025 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

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 (15a295f1d98fcbbdd6a077bc3a849966ca3f73919c0d47e58948ff382481e5b6)
Malicious copy of a standard library module that during class initialization downloads and executes remote code and after that attempts to cover its tracks by overwriting itself with non-malicious code. The remote code aims to collect and exfiltrate sensitive Telegram session files.

This campaign shares infrastructure and basic methods with previous 2025-11-uzip campaign.

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

Campaign: 2025-12-smtblib

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

- infostealer

- target:telegram

- exfiltration-credentials

- action-hidden-in-lib-usage

- covering-tracks

- clones-real-package

- typosquatting

Indicators of compromise

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