MAL-2025-969

    Dashboard / Malicious Package / MAL-2025-969

    MAL-2025-969

    Published: 24 Dec 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in reqiest (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (ae04fab0eca7fc7fee7494d9651df8a18dbe919cd8c0fa56522711b9f845aa25) Importing the module downloads and starts an infostealer attempting to exfiltrate data and establishing persistence through autorun directory. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2024-12-reqesst Reasons (based on the campaign): - infostealer - peristence-autorun - typosquatting - exfiltration-generic - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - clones-real-package - dependency-confusion - exfiltration-browser-data - exfiltration-crypto

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0736a1f176f081a076b2cba3b54e1cb1462fe1a01be16144397bbc0d4739d01a, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/56ed3b8ca17b00ee8e7a1cb13298e5b12fd1771c24b33b9a84ba92b0610279e5, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/reqiest

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: reqiest

    Purl: pkg:pypi/reqiest

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.32.2
    2.32.3
    MAL-2025-969 | CVE-DB