MAL-2025-191642

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    MAL-2025-191642

    Published: 19 Oct 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in kirux189894 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (f147ce226cffa7d6f6b34db801242958dc198c8d18c01cef735b65439dae8678) Package simulates malicious activity during installation and has no other purpose 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-wangzhou183 Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/kirux189894

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kirux189894

    Purl: pkg:pypi/kirux189894

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1
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