{"id":"MAL-2025-5144","summary":"Malicious code in whel (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (556e14c71baa5758239b80d9333f83a0369b1169e63b027c50d633b97475136c)\nPackage uses the template from https://github.com/thegoodhackertv/malpip to explore building malicious PyPI packages.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: SCRIPT_KIDDIE-thegoodhacker-paquete\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\n - Package uses simple pre-prepared tools to create a low-quality malicious action.\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:58:34.660982Z","published":"2024-08-05T22:25:51Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2025-06-18T15:06:04.209461599Z","source":"reversing-labs","modified_time":"2025-06-18T10:15:28Z","sha256":"8b42afd43b449679bed7257f7c58d910c76359f62080ac8ed0ad85bb59ca80f9","id":"RLMA-2025-03041","versions":["1.0.0"]},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.770932051Z","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-08-05T22:25:51Z","sha256":"b29ba207483b2c8c39557a7ba728abfa5c536086a9a42e19f60d14c30ed96658","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"id":"pypi/SCRIPT_KIDDIE-thegoodhacker-paquete/whel"},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.814946632Z","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-08-05T22:25:51Z","sha256":"556e14c71baa5758239b80d9333f83a0369b1169e63b027c50d633b97475136c","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"id":"pypi/SCRIPT_KIDDIE-thegoodhacker-paquete/whel"},{"import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.989629685Z","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-08-05T22:25:51Z","sha256":"14900319e04f7c35cf2ef793c8f23a53c4bd95642165138b7664eac80531b193","id":"pypi/SCRIPT_KIDDIE-thegoodhacker-paquete/whel","versions":["1.0.0"]},{"import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:44.402062312Z","source":"reversing-labs","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:20:36Z","sha256":"946d71d17feba0d99649f12daa651b532e84374534433f5080519087701f8b20","id":"RLUA-2026-00929"}],"iocs":{"urls":["https://github.com/thegoodhackertv/malpip"]}},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/thegoodhackertv/malpip"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/whel"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"whel","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/whel"},"versions":["1.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/whel/MAL-2025-5144.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"}]}