MAL-2025-191899

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    MAL-2025-191899

    Published: 18 Feb 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in tiksing (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (ef883e1ad19e5cbeafdda023c535abc9a14f84f81dce26e06d9f10bf77013ab5) Importing the module starts Obfuscated code that downloads a well-recognized malware. In the further variations, the code that download and starts the malicious code is now a little more hidden in the functionality and starts after presenting some allegedly expected activity Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-02-tiksing Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - obfuscation - malware

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c79b02b155cc374c36acec0550ce3f66dc139eb7fa2bf84c7f9f8bcf45526be9, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/tiksing

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tiksing

    Purl: pkg:pypi/tiksing

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    0.0.2