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Malicious MAL-2025-6614

vramx

PyPI package · versions 1.6.2, 1.6.3

Reported Jul 16, 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 (62a5bfc96a523ea6df6a2539bea5f16b48800c1896ef7fb2df344ed0486e6a49)
Installing the package triggers a code that looks like downloading a picture, but in fact downloads and starts an executable with malware. Note that file supplied from the URL differs depending on the presence of the special header

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

Campaign: 2025-07-memlib

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- malware

Indicators of compromise

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

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