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Malicious MAL-2025-47784

license-checker

PyPI package · versions 0.1.2, 0.1.3

Reported Aug 29, 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 (a636a791b9731fe5018309c2e7890934873ab4c091520d933029f170a1848592)
Package exfiltrates content of .env files to a remote target

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

Campaign: 2025-08-import-license-checker

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

Indicators of compromise

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

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