{"id":"MAL-2025-5654","summary":"Malicious code in malicus (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (d151385056670ff22bfb80dc356c10ff622a77e115f8d81ee5f066220e05fda1)\nThe only goal of the package is to execute a webhook or a suspicious file during installation.\n\nClosely related to 2025-07-0x9xnx - created after previous packages were quarantined, similar names, similar usage, but no clearly malicious parts.\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: 2025-07-malimalo\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## Source: ossf-package-analysis (a33ca8f3dec153ea010973822a2919bfa0530325bf4b037096177eb3c6ba9aed)\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'malicus' @ 0.0.1 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.\n","modified":"2025-12-12T20:42:34.079419Z","published":"2025-07-04T11:00:53Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2025-07-08T05:39:10.264144376Z","versions":["0.0.1"],"modified_time":"2025-07-04T11:00:53Z","sha256":"a33ca8f3dec153ea010973822a2919bfa0530325bf4b037096177eb3c6ba9aed","source":"ossf-package-analysis"},{"import_time":"2025-08-01T10:07:12.383399166Z","id":"RLMA-2025-03635","versions":["0.0.1"],"modified_time":"2025-07-31T19:15:35Z","sha256":"511a0df9ce62865e7fe9d9ab88084449ca162955e421d25e18faea4a42d8cb02","source":"reversing-labs"},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.188240021Z","id":"pypi/2025-07-malimalo/malicus","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2025-07-04T11:41:06Z","sha256":"c82c6aaa8ce5fca384275ee10590977703f1b95785ff710809c4b28617464e52","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.370315563Z","id":"pypi/2025-07-malimalo/malicus","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2025-07-04T11:41:06Z","sha256":"d151385056670ff22bfb80dc356c10ff622a77e115f8d81ee5f066220e05fda1","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.495928349Z","id":"pypi/2025-07-malimalo/malicus","versions":["0.0.1"],"modified_time":"2025-07-04T11:41:06Z","sha256":"d9368e68116db74a18b2468d7c138dec41ea67b55922d40ceaa5acf939589e48","source":"kam193"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/malicus"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"malicus","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/malicus"},"versions":["0.0.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/malicus/MAL-2025-5654.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":"REPORTER"},{"name":"OpenSSF: Package Analysis","contact":["https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis","https://openssf.slack.com/channels/package_analysis"],"type":"FINDER"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}