MAL-2025-1992

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    MAL-2025-1992

    Published: 4 Feb 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in requests-x64 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (996690f6aae3ce7456b45309072e2b12f5afda24b2f58e7f66b004c1f2b99872) Code in setup.py attempts to silently download and execute an executable. The file contains a malware Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-02-requests-x64 Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable.

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/91278add45dd263f081394b27cd0ac3e2e951bb2de9d97dfc235563776d171c5, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/requests-x64

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: requests-x64

    Purl: pkg:pypi/requests-x64

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.0.0