{"id":"MAL-2025-191622","summary":"Malicious code in donotinstall (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (a0c56680f6f4db81ec1ad0691253d592055a3581b00e9c93e3dfd6d448b63212)\nPackage contains obfuscated reverse shell. However, it connects with a local IP only, thus it's much more a test than a malicious action\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: 2025-10-donotinstall\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.\n\n\n - obfuscation\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:52:43.608068Z","published":"2025-10-26T19:33:38Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"source":"reversing-labs","import_time":"2025-12-02T09:09:36.270831067Z","versions":["1"],"modified_time":"2025-12-01T12:54:14Z","id":"RLMA-2025-05590","sha256":"94ed4ebff18057da5526637d1150d8cc470f20112bacca2f43bab949d14216f2"},{"source":"kam193","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.000474102Z","versions":["1.0"],"modified_time":"2025-10-26T19:33:38.499621Z","id":"pypi/2025-10-donotinstall/donotinstall","sha256":"fecfc822a8976103368c32882bbc7c420938c161e019165d9acd67cb08e2f45a"},{"source":"kam193","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.195355137Z","versions":["1.0"],"modified_time":"2025-10-26T19:33:38.499621Z","id":"pypi/2025-10-donotinstall/donotinstall","sha256":"a0c56680f6f4db81ec1ad0691253d592055a3581b00e9c93e3dfd6d448b63212"},{"source":"reversing-labs","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:19:41.426894648Z","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:13:23Z","id":"RLUA-2026-00279","sha256":"00b412c8982f5407430b6b2adb21986e7460d0959c429e13997fc14072f9c0e7"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/donotinstall"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"donotinstall","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/donotinstall"},"versions":["1","1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/donotinstall/MAL-2025-191622.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":"REPORTER"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}