MAL-2025-191622

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    MAL-2025-191622

    Published: 26 Oct 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in donotinstall (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (a0c56680f6f4db81ec1ad0691253d592055a3581b00e9c93e3dfd6d448b63212) Package contains obfuscated reverse shell. However, it connects with a local IP only, thus it's much more a test than a malicious action 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: 2025-10-donotinstall Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine. - obfuscation

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/donotinstall

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: donotinstall

    Purl: pkg:pypi/donotinstall

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1
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