MAL-2025-3019

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    MAL-2025-3019

    Published: 9 Mar 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in wiki-requests (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (9d4143f13c89e66e8f5b2c0905a57d6d25f6d02d46b62aef3e58d4b1f2dda697) Setup.py attempts to exfiltrate information about the system and span a reverse shell Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-03-wiki-requests 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. - exfiltration-generic - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wiki-requests

    Purl: pkg:pypi/wiki-requests

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    0.0.2
    0.0.3
    MAL-2025-3019 | CVE-DB