{"id":"MAL-2025-3005","summary":"Malicious code in szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (8e35cfed38428b7a513be4c205127136c3ff4884fd2045b3ad9026c9569068c7)\nInstalling the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.\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-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:57:11.429079Z","published":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"RLMA-2025-02004","import_time":"2025-03-31T07:07:06.947996524Z","modified_time":"2025-03-28T13:06:22Z","sha256":"2e9b7340ee5ada8a88ab6d2ab359a3803edbaf8a13e22c006cfa2d86fbcacf93","source":"reversing-labs","versions":["0.1.16"]},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.430365891Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"2579f54d87d0499fb4ac0ee25243d435ce7f353deb7554e2f4f15032252779a0","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"8e35cfed38428b7a513be4c205127136c3ff4884fd2045b3ad9026c9569068c7","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.614626905Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"versions":["0.1.16"],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.718548488Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","sha256":"2ba0bc38d901a23757ff5048505f6ca036542aa0f4d03a69cef4e0d63f0224a3","source":"kam193"},{"id":"RLUA-2026-00798","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:31.63317689Z","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:19:14Z","sha256":"66afb5ef9a2940a9c7e67491f4e920d4f9bd0053f5ceb7adb55a190b43521586","source":"reversing-labs"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader"},"versions":["0.1.16"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/szn-search-mlops-serp-downloader/MAL-2025-3005.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"}]}