MAL-2025-193012

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    MAL-2025-193012

    Published: 6 Feb 2026Last Modified: 13 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in gridifies (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (5b003711060bdfd51eddae8b2ec6fc00313aee8bb480e9017b5ad5d03dbf567c) Packages contain hidden code that is effectively run during importing or using the library, and downloads second stage code. Then, a process running in background periodically connects to a remote host and waits for next code to execute Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-11-spellcheckers Reasons (based on the campaign): - obfuscation - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script. - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

    References: https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-spellcheckers-2025-11-19, https://www.aikido.dev/blog/malicious-pypi-packages-spellcheckpy-and-spellcheckerpy-deliver-python-rat, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/gridifies

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gridifies

    Purl: pkg:pypi/gridifies

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.2
    MAL-2025-193012 | CVE-DB