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Malicious MAL-2025-6524

initer

PyPI package · versions 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.5, 0.2.6

Reported May 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 (d2aac1e40660cbe4323a93d03087f3b9a2d596a5dcfcf2bae3cb0a2ab37cf646)
File is designed to download, hide under system-like name, and run a remote executable, widely identified as malicious.

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

Campaign: 2025-05-pyiniter

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

Indicators of compromise

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

URLs

  • hxxps://raw[.]githubusercontent[.]com/Sierftgddfgrth/win32dll/main/win32dll[.]exe other packages →