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Malicious MAL-2025-1977

hellohackers

PyPI package · versions 0.0.0

Reported Feb 5, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 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 (63788f1f3223270be7955b619eb09fa7e7f401084e4332ed732d33b522782a37)
File contains a metapreter beacon that runs in the setup.py. Analysed version uses a local IP as the target.

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

Campaign: 2025-02-hellohackers

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.