{"id":"MAL-2025-191722","summary":"Malicious code in evil-py-argo-shell (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee)\nPackage demonstrate potentially malicious execution of system commands, and seems to be used for pentesting purposes\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-simple-tests\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n","modified":"2026-03-17T23:01:32.210428Z","published":"2025-11-24T13:19:35Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.015696197Z","versions":["0.1.2","0.1.1","0.1.0"],"modified_time":"2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell","sha256":"62a70f79e3901af2f9b191e6b6da470a4fa3588fdfdefe043cf145ff6b8bd24e"},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.214513054Z","versions":["0.1.2","0.1.1","0.1.0"],"modified_time":"2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell","sha256":"1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee"},{"import_time":"2025-12-30T22:39:04.284750785Z","versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.2"],"modified_time":"2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell","sha256":"211d2fa701e559dae3b4dee75be2f9b1e802ebd79ed5d98c038164473b01fa08"},{"import_time":"2026-03-17T22:46:38.477695717Z","versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.2"],"modified_time":"2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell","sha256":"5d1bf0a86f51282ab0606be0682316d0b7e4002c50df4060871628d5e76badbc"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/evil-py-argo-shell"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"evil-py-argo-shell","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/evil-py-argo-shell"},"versions":["0.1.2","0.1.1","0.1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/evil-py-argo-shell/MAL-2025-191722.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":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}