MAL-2025-1975

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    MAL-2025-1975

    Published: 4 Feb 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in farooq4321 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (165ce280a6d073eebbba054677a6c80307c8353b31e41732ba1ffc1f8a020aa4) Code in setup.py attempts to call a webhook, but most importantly to execute a revshell Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-02-farooq4321 Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/farooq4321

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: farooq4321

    Purl: pkg:pypi/farooq4321

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    MAL-2025-1975 | CVE-DB