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Malicious MAL-2025-6542

malimaloo

PyPI package · versions 0.0.1

Reported Jul 4, 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 (cfbfc14d4873b047e472e26b760198ecc402eb1ed35d59ab3ace8dc31936690f)
The only goal of the package is to execute a webhook or a suspicious file during installation.

Closely related to 2025-07-0x9xnx - created after previous packages were quarantined, similar names, similar usage, but no clearly malicious parts.

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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: 2025-07-malimalo

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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