MAL-2025-191864

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    MAL-2025-191864

    Published: 22 Aug 2025Last Modified: 3 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in seclab-research-depconf-test-2 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (c4210a0224d23d330894d4d8e0f694f3c81a4fb7b71d5056636aecf98fd9b6f6) Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm. 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: GENERIC-simple-tests Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: seclab-research-depconf-test-2

    Purl: pkg:pypi/seclab-research-depconf-test-2

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0