{"id":"MAL-2024-10174","summary":"Malicious code in this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345 (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (6731f0b45ddfd51d7b4ede3181c38007a58a01e569b13d867b987cd9487ee472)\nInstalling the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: 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.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:57:25.136104Z","published":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"source":"reversing-labs","sha256":"8d58642828d107435bf0b222810ec9512595db8c795033d277d654de6c9fbc10","import_time":"2024-10-24T00:57:09.907110132Z","versions":["0.0.1","0.0.3"],"id":"RLMA-2024-09415","modified_time":"2024-10-16T14:52:52Z"},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"fecee3eb2ddb01da713a307ebc258c30892c10d6b505e719b356713e1ca92b38","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.454472894Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"6731f0b45ddfd51d7b4ede3181c38007a58a01e569b13d867b987cd9487ee472","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.63855697Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"01594393ac783656dbec4f24a6b034de4747e19d72acd53200e1132bab352b02","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.740460618Z","versions":["0.0.1","0.0.3"],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"},{"source":"reversing-labs","sha256":"fe792efb6b6b9feb135c890065e9253daa0ff53ddde890d2be8e9388fcaf169b","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:33.428790415Z","id":"RLUA-2026-00818","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:19:27Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345"},"versions":["0.0.1","0.0.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/this-is-poc-fortesting-dontinstall-12345/MAL-2024-10174.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"ANALYST"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}