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Malicious MAL-2025-3019

wiki-requests

PyPI package · versions 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3

Reported Mar 9, 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 (9d4143f13c89e66e8f5b2c0905a57d6d25f6d02d46b62aef3e58d4b1f2dda697)
Setup.py attempts to exfiltrate information about the system and span a reverse shell

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

Campaign: 2025-03-wiki-requests

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.

- exfiltration-generic

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Indicators of compromise

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