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Malicious MAL-2025-965

reqesst

PyPI package · versions 2.32.3

Reported Dec 24, 2024 · 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 (8e4a4682ad923d5e0f2e444487e5f42a4bae8d753ecd747f7b652e407f5cc32f)
Importing the module downloads and starts an infostealer attempting to exfiltrate data and establishing persistence through autorun directory.

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

Campaign: 2024-12-reqesst

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

- peristence-autorun

- typosquatting

- exfiltration-generic

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- clones-real-package

- dependency-confusion

- exfiltration-browser-data

- exfiltration-crypto

Indicators of compromise

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

URLs

  • hxxps://www[.]dropbox[.]com/scl/fi/d4ftoxxvovr12f4tjh0mc/H7Glqp2Vy[.]exe?rlkey=z323u7r1ipm2tegn2dqlqzv9l&st=9gg48qpa&dl=1 other packages →