{"id":"MAL-2025-6522","summary":"Malicious code in httppack (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (d66d0c3948eb48c93a56872d2a149edfcc65ae57178e7d7a51405ef755880939)\nPackages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm.\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-simple-tests\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","modified":"2026-03-19T12:53:30.257640Z","published":"2025-07-14T05:06:08Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"RLMA-2025-03615","import_time":"2025-08-01T10:07:11.804359376Z","modified_time":"2025-07-31T19:15:18Z","sha256":"5db6abc2dd73c368c8d62385f13796a00cefea8bfb5402ead9f78cf28fd921bf","source":"reversing-labs","versions":["0.1","0.2"]},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/httppack","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.101322613Z","modified_time":"2025-07-14T05:06:08.30579Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"9e56447724a029ce757b7928d9d901b53bc34d2dba8bad3ef794ac77844afaf6","source":"kam193"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/httppack","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.288956865Z","modified_time":"2025-07-14T05:06:08.30579Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"d66d0c3948eb48c93a56872d2a149edfcc65ae57178e7d7a51405ef755880939","source":"kam193"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/httppack","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.427596249Z","modified_time":"2025-07-14T05:06:08.30579Z","sha256":"17afbbd40f2c75f9b0778ba9e27f3372b83c743c36f0ef4f9965f26a2c4b0086","source":"kam193","versions":["0.1","0.2"]},{"id":"RLUA-2026-00398","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:19:52.553857087Z","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:14:44Z","sha256":"437fed99869ae64fd84ced0bfd32d14e1f475c3366273a368f5bb8aa89325bc7","source":"reversing-labs"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/httppack"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"httppack","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/httppack"},"versions":["0.1","0.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/httppack/MAL-2025-6522.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"}]}