MAL-2025-1965

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    MAL-2025-1965

    Published: 1 Feb 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in asynchelpers (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (e262ab4b975a2de9c0216656ca3e760d84f3cdacb526340248dd476c31ddeb0d) Importing the module starts (through __init__.py) the code that download, extracts and starts a remote executable. This has been identified by any.run as a AsyncRAT. The VirtusTotal detection rate was originally at the edge of false positive, but increased significantly during a few hours. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-01-asynchelpers Reasons (based on the campaign): - infostealer - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - malware

    References: https://app.any.run/tasks/f4f95dff-ac96-47f1-bc14-76e2745ecb3d, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/265ef544887043fb158f2049a4e77ccf6119e28e3aebcde66b28db70795b5ee6, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/asynchelpers

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: asynchelpers

    Purl: pkg:pypi/asynchelpers

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.2.0
    MAL-2025-1965 | CVE-DB