{"id":"MAL-2025-6433","summary":"Malicious code in anku2-rce (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (4a0fdfa7bc3195d177e4d6e3dcad16eb59cc436e2b4dc48230b0c088546086fe)\nInstalling starts a reverse shell\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-07-anku2-rce\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:50:10.816513Z","published":"2025-07-16T10:50:59Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"2314ca216dbc96a88bbe41d29146515491f6ea18243de5c7b404c3c605b18397","versions":["0.0.1","0.0.2"],"modified_time":"2025-07-31T19:13:57Z","import_time":"2025-08-01T10:07:08.88815133Z","id":"RLMA-2025-03517","source":"reversing-labs"},{"sha256":"8316954c2bde1e576829dee228a7192007fdbc98382233f0a9aa243b804b19fa","modified_time":"2025-07-16T10:50:59.944152Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:54.903176045Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"id":"pypi/2025-07-anku2-rce/anku2-rce","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"4a0fdfa7bc3195d177e4d6e3dcad16eb59cc436e2b4dc48230b0c088546086fe","modified_time":"2025-07-16T10:50:59.944152Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:17.947309694Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"id":"pypi/2025-07-anku2-rce/anku2-rce","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"8cd81237a7437dc22233c906893fe125b9a8f3b14907db395a7034e018846c4d","versions":["0.0.1","0.0.2"],"modified_time":"2025-07-16T10:50:59.944152Z","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.252893047Z","id":"pypi/2025-07-anku2-rce/anku2-rce","source":"kam193"},{"sha256":"b2f0675a57d584aecf57d04f037bdd37951db34d74fd7ff3f651bbde1f189986","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:11:01Z","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:19:22.407134127Z","id":"RLUA-2026-00066","source":"reversing-labs"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/anku2-rce"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"anku2-rce","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/anku2-rce"},"versions":["0.0.1","0.0.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/anku2-rce/MAL-2025-6433.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"}]}