{"id":"MAL-2025-47820","summary":"Malicious code in propeller-solver-core (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (a79fc2ce4f8dbef3a36ad1dcf36011f9d86435f347aa81ed601295d75e818b04)\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\n## Source: ossf-package-analysis (a60c45782766334b6a7985c2a3fc269d737651c1169d8139d1e13302eb10c5c5)\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'propeller-solver-core' @ 133.3.7 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.\n","modified":"2025-12-03T00:30:16.309418Z","published":"2025-09-28T15:35:42Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"versions":["133.3.7"],"sha256":"a60c45782766334b6a7985c2a3fc269d737651c1169d8139d1e13302eb10c5c5","source":"ossf-package-analysis","modified_time":"2025-09-28T15:35:42Z","import_time":"2025-09-28T16:06:21.31691708Z"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/propeller-solver-core","versions":["133.3.7"],"sha256":"3b22c3c970786e22a5219fce871fa9495ca3705979cadd4271d4211b30414ca5","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2025-09-28T17:43:10.440821Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.317792516Z"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/propeller-solver-core","versions":["133.3.7"],"sha256":"a79fc2ce4f8dbef3a36ad1dcf36011f9d86435f347aa81ed601295d75e818b04","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2025-09-28T17:43:10.440821Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.507929443Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/propeller-solver-core"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"propeller-solver-core","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/propeller-solver-core"},"versions":["133.3.7"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/propeller-solver-core/MAL-2025-47820.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","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":"OpenSSF: Package Analysis","contact":["https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis","https://openssf.slack.com/channels/package_analysis"],"type":"FINDER"}]}