MAL-2025-5656

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    MAL-2025-5656

    Published: 4 Jul 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in malinssx (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (ec1d3e0940a3c37917b528689547d3728f9f3d0b9e408acc7dcc67435c09d2b0) 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 (3d92abafc09cf0f7dc822d1020b48ae9cef15a8844d75ec034e30a49af7de3f4) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'malinssx' @ 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/malinssx

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: malinssx

    Purl: pkg:pypi/malinssx

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
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