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Malicious MAL-2025-192961

awsutil

PyPI package · versions 99.99.99, 0.1.1, 0.1.0

Reported Dec 29, 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 (86d4af9fafbcfb6e3789a38b426c744e4ac67da10eb1fa225be3a715189fb1c2)
Dependency confusion research package with advanced module-mocking

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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: 2025-12-sec-lab-it

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- dependency-confusion

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

- typosquatting

Indicators of compromise

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