MAL-2025-1978

    Dashboard / Malicious Package / MAL-2025-1978

    MAL-2025-1978

    Published: 10 Jan 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in javascan (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (3b87a6ab9caea125ba4a71189d6a1740668e44d637f7e7c2d4f85daaf4f54ed0) During installation, a code is downloaded and executed. This remote script then attempts to exfiltrate environmental variables, SSH keys, Slack secrets etc. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-01-javascan Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script. - files-exfiltration - exfiltration-ssh-keys - dependency-confusion - exfiltration-env-variables

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: javascan

    Purl: pkg:pypi/javascan

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1
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