MAL-2025-5124

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    MAL-2025-5124

    Published: 15 May 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in pyfiglets (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (66caa962e9fedf67dff7c9da840c4a4dcdca71f237d2e36f332f5b5bd32750bc) Malicious clone of pyfiglet. Importing the package starts a series of downloading and executing of obfuscated malicious scripts, partially identified by AVs. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-05-rich-figlet Reasons (based on the campaign): - backdoor - clones-real-package - obfuscation - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pyfiglets

    Purl: pkg:pypi/pyfiglets

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
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