MAL-2025-3460

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    MAL-2025-3460

    Published: 18 Mar 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in python-socket-test (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (93a8d30e631680bace9b05db1ac189cbcc472895fcfb1db40f4df52f301a6599) Importing the package starts a script that takes commands from remote server and executes locally Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-03-python-socket-test Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/python-socket-test

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-socket-test

    Purl: pkg:pypi/python-socket-test

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    1.0.1
    MAL-2025-3460 | CVE-DB