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Malicious MAL-2025-999

utilitypyfunc

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0

Reported Dec 17, 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 (2aaf64ae76493cf55c8b9e418bc3408f9e309b5c6a590a2ad528beb5ae8dbcc0)
Importing the package starts the thread that gets and executes code from the remote server. The package description suggests a rather spam than malicious intentions.

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

Campaign: 2024-12-utilitypyfunc

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.