MAL-2025-5122

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    MAL-2025-5122

    Published: 20 May 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in octopus32 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (15fe4c8243ee2e3d9bb59df9134466819fdcb2e151cc4d79568dc4eb2dea9ac9) The obfuscated code downloads and starts a remote executable. The remote file has limited detection in VT, but contains at least code to add Defender exclusion paths. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-05-octopus32 Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - obfuscation

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ed1e4e19d366e74a0d156e8187fa2606ed3ae74254c558d6b6af54168745b811/detection, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/octopus32

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: octopus32

    Purl: pkg:pypi/octopus32

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1
    MAL-2025-5122 | CVE-DB