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Malicious MAL-2025-47752

cffi-curl

PyPI package · versions 0.13.0

Reported Aug 20, 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 (1bdc2d55f462ed9009995743e5bc50ed10641cffa24d5b16606e3a479fffae10)
Malicious clone of a legitimate package "curl-cffi". When importing the module, it runs an obfuscated PowerShell command

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

Campaign: 2025-08-cffi-curl

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- typosquatting

- obfuscation

- malware

- clones-real-package