{"id":"MAL-2025-1965","summary":"Malicious code in asynchelpers (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (e262ab4b975a2de9c0216656ca3e760d84f3cdacb526340248dd476c31ddeb0d)\nImporting the module starts (through __init__.py) the code that download, extracts and starts a remote executable. This has been identified by any.run as a AsyncRAT. The VirtusTotal detection rate was originally at the edge of false positive, but increased significantly during a few hours.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-01-asynchelpers\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - infostealer\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n\n - malware\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:50:29.876616Z","published":"2025-02-01T00:45:27Z","database_specific":{"iocs":{"ips":["104.194.151.19"],"urls":["https://github.com/asynchelpers/asynchelpers/raw/refs/heads/main/configs/main/security_profiles/functionality.zip"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2025-03-03T15:07:14.034410593Z","modified_time":"2025-03-03T13:44:39Z","sha256":"3abdfacd480ef37dda3fa5227b950c999e9d6332d4bf65b56e981752a0d4a055","source":"reversing-labs","versions":["1.2.0"],"id":"RLMA-2025-01200"},{"id":"pypi/2025-01-asynchelpers/asynchelpers","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:54.951211087Z","modified_time":"2025-02-01T00:45:27Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"sha256":"bc72d23ac15ca2bd56b6336b7999972ac306783bb0cacd59b7060304be22bf6e","source":"kam193"},{"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"sha256":"e262ab4b975a2de9c0216656ca3e760d84f3cdacb526340248dd476c31ddeb0d","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2025-01-asynchelpers/asynchelpers","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:17.990957583Z","modified_time":"2025-02-01T00:45:27Z"},{"id":"pypi/2025-01-asynchelpers/asynchelpers","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.296565771Z","modified_time":"2025-02-01T00:45:27Z","sha256":"99d47d8c6d0c1ac235c1516350bc19073422bcf4c6b8f9b0e16e956a7e230d21","source":"kam193","versions":["1.2.0"]},{"import_time":"2026-03-19T12:19:24.463324164Z","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:11:18Z","sha256":"5eb364faa17b6d04d2243f56410fb36a5040aab1d87b818403e3bc03029c8377","source":"reversing-labs","id":"RLUA-2026-00089"}]},"references":[{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://app.any.run/tasks/f4f95dff-ac96-47f1-bc14-76e2745ecb3d"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/265ef544887043fb158f2049a4e77ccf6119e28e3aebcde66b28db70795b5ee6"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/asynchelpers"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"asynchelpers","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/asynchelpers"},"versions":["1.2.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/asynchelpers/MAL-2025-1965.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"}]}