MAL-2025-5144

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    MAL-2025-5144

    Published: 5 Aug 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in whel (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (556e14c71baa5758239b80d9333f83a0369b1169e63b027c50d633b97475136c) Package uses the template from https://github.com/thegoodhackertv/malpip to explore building malicious PyPI packages. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: SCRIPT_KIDDIE-thegoodhacker-paquete Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - Package uses simple pre-prepared tools to create a low-quality malicious action.

    References: https://github.com/thegoodhackertv/malpip, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/whel

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: whel

    Purl: pkg:pypi/whel

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0