{"id":"MAL-2025-2993","summary":"Malicious code in pythonhttp (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (3ed5759c2260c5467724f053f3d59eac62f5491fc2d03350fef0a6f832652e3b)\nInstalling the package starts a heavily obfuscated Powershell Script that attempts to (at least) overwrite copied crypto wallets\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-03-pythonhttp\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\n\n - obfuscation\n\n\n - malware\n\n\n - crypto-related\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:56:08.818295Z","published":"2025-03-04T10:02:05Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"6a122a77250072d59a6c30b2481a19b1b841182f8531a7007131dd824324c4b1","versions":["0.1","1.0.4"],"id":"RLMA-2025-01992","modified_time":"2025-03-28T13:06:08Z","import_time":"2025-03-31T07:07:06.549163703Z","source":"reversing-labs"},{"sha256":"47baf933e5681e0c9ccded4eb43838eba6471b269f6d6931be73a7ad98d38974","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"id":"pypi/2025-03-pythonhttp/pythonhttp","modified_time":"2025-03-04T10:02:05Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.497664702Z","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"3ed5759c2260c5467724f053f3d59eac62f5491fc2d03350fef0a6f832652e3b","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"id":"pypi/2025-03-pythonhttp/pythonhttp","modified_time":"2025-03-04T10:02:05Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.522521497Z","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"9f890dd2f7a693f0c2fe632b76bd7d111480dab1a6200c6671731ce0b5161f07","versions":["1.0.4"],"id":"pypi/2025-03-pythonhttp/pythonhttp","modified_time":"2025-03-04T10:02:05Z","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.740957417Z","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"6415283ba4a5019ab461dcae2e7ff6642ce84db38b6ee5f259c73dd3bdfcf597","id":"RLUA-2026-00669","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:17:50Z","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:18.889986628Z","source":"reversing-labs"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pythonhttp"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pythonhttp","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/pythonhttp"},"versions":["0.1","1.0.4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/pythonhttp/MAL-2025-2993.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"}]}