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Malicious MAL-2025-6522

httppack

PyPI package · versions 0.1, 0.2

Reported Jul 14, 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 (d66d0c3948eb48c93a56872d2a149edfcc65ae57178e7d7a51405ef755880939)
Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm.

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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-simple-tests

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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