MAL-2025-2961

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    MAL-2025-2961

    Published: 23 Aug 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in evil-pkg2 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (d1e1a7a65c4f1287f792371642eb66734028aa9dc7ffc50adde9b551e082bdb1) Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm. Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities. Campaign: GENERIC-simple-tests Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/evil-pkg2

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: evil-pkg2

    Purl: pkg:pypi/evil-pkg2

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.2
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