MAL-2025-5654

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    MAL-2025-5654

    Published: 4 Jul 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in malicus (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (d151385056670ff22bfb80dc356c10ff622a77e115f8d81ee5f066220e05fda1) The only goal of the package is to execute a webhook or a suspicious file during installation. Closely related to 2025-07-0x9xnx - created after previous packages were quarantined, similar names, similar usage, but no clearly malicious parts. Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities. Campaign: 2025-07-malimalo Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. Source: ossf-package-analysis (a33ca8f3dec153ea010973822a2919bfa0530325bf4b037096177eb3c6ba9aed) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'malicus' @ 0.0.1 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: malicus

    Purl: pkg:pypi/malicus

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1