{"id":"MAL-2025-191894","summary":"Malicious code in testingpkgja (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (0bd692e8fc46a3f43477d1f095e7c6e2b9666d2d2c60655ac91efd2be07f5193)\nPackage downloads and starts an external executable. The executable starts the Windows calculator application. Considering this and the package description, this is a test of potentially malicious behaviour.\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":"2026-03-19T12:57:18.785244Z","published":"2025-11-23T21:05:33Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/testingpkgja","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.442545112Z","modified_time":"2025-11-23T21:05:33.70336Z","sha256":"fca3e86fc2c86900f0d6417b3ea497f3fae95579011b0e12b07722b87f1fe972","source":"kam193","versions":["0.1.0"]},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/testingpkgja","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.627025918Z","modified_time":"2025-11-23T21:05:33.70336Z","sha256":"0bd692e8fc46a3f43477d1f095e7c6e2b9666d2d2c60655ac91efd2be07f5193","source":"kam193","versions":["0.1.0"]},{"source":"reversing-labs","versions":["0.1.0"],"id":"RLMA-2025-06596","import_time":"2025-12-24T10:07:31.509780225Z","modified_time":"2025-12-23T08:39:56Z","sha256":"df29cb02799d2e544ca550e855c0357955523f16afe29890425d9199562984d5"},{"modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:19:21Z","sha256":"986fd7d161bdf0c6c62fecda614fdca77ecb7dafb18e25deca1ddefe7426040f","source":"reversing-labs","id":"RLUA-2026-00807","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:32.262123377Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/testingpkgja"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"testingpkgja","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/testingpkgja"},"versions":["0.1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/testingpkgja/MAL-2025-191894.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"}]}