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Malicious MAL-2025-192958

smtmlib

PyPI package · versions 0.1.6, 0.1.7

Reported Dec 29, 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 (e871336d0effe99cb62efeda3a287186e75c1bd4ca5770efd81718db8ababe4e)
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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