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Malicious MAL-2025-1992

requests-x64

PyPI package · versions 2.0.0

Reported Feb 4, 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 (996690f6aae3ce7456b45309072e2b12f5afda24b2f58e7f66b004c1f2b99872)
Code in setup.py attempts to silently download and execute an executable. The file contains a malware

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

Campaign: 2025-02-requests-x64

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

Indicators of compromise

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

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