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Malicious MAL-2025-193014

cas-base

PyPI package · versions 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.9, 1.7.1

Reported Jul 14, 2025 · Updated May 11, 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 (69eb341218878aebdec66eb5a44391314921fe3c7fb387021d0684bbb91913b3)
The package contains code to install remotely stored malware and ensure its persistence. The code is not triggered automatically; it requires a separate trigger.

Originally, cas-base was detected in 2025-07 with an unclear payload. Later it got updated to a clearly malicious payload

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

Campaign: 2025-07-cas-base

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- malware

- persistence

Indicators of compromise

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

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