{"id":"MAL-2025-966","summary":"Malicious code in reqest (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (35a7c05f500ebad2694b0b98105f189762f1892d35081dfd36a47787a2205f59)\nImporting the module downloads and starts an infostealer attempting to exfiltrate data and establishing persistence through autorun directory.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2024-12-reqesst\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - infostealer\n\n\n - peristence-autorun\n\n\n - typosquatting\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n\n - clones-real-package\n\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n\n - exfiltration-browser-data\n\n\n - exfiltration-crypto\n","modified":"2026-03-19T12:56:17.324580Z","published":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","database_specific":{"iocs":{"urls":["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d4ftoxxvovr12f4tjh0mc/H7Glqp2Vy.exe?rlkey=z323u7r1ipm2tegn2dqlqzv9l&st=9gg48qpa&dl=1"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"versions":["0.0.1","2.32.2","2.32.3"],"import_time":"2025-02-03T18:38:08.451248258Z","id":"RLMA-2025-00507","sha256":"8de8096d1e3df2d3158a0fac832dabfc338ab7191ef7abd85ac0c6ab40bea722","source":"reversing-labs","modified_time":"2025-02-03T17:07:46Z"},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.530154015Z","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqest","sha256":"5c312677f39911b9857e8d680b9c0b9f95c9ac9e3661ed792c9581b660670c85","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z"},{"import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.567540801Z","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqest","sha256":"35a7c05f500ebad2694b0b98105f189762f1892d35081dfd36a47787a2205f59","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z"},{"versions":["0.0.1","2.32.3","2.32.2"],"import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.776104708Z","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqest","sha256":"d371a722fb85bc85d5c37ba100708013a35ac82ce9217cd28c41d8de28dd53d2","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z"},{"versions":["0.0.1","2.32.2","2.32.3"],"import_time":"2025-12-30T22:39:04.157577245Z","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqest","sha256":"dfdfce702ca54e49f9322f4231e3eed82850b5cc1201f85c73223472921d8dde","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z"},{"import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:21.536141768Z","id":"RLUA-2026-00695","sha256":"605494460ec5e159518a1f1e0432c5fe683ad6277dd2487038f02f73f1a5d6af","source":"reversing-labs","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:18:06Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0736a1f176f081a076b2cba3b54e1cb1462fe1a01be16144397bbc0d4739d01a"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/56ed3b8ca17b00ee8e7a1cb13298e5b12fd1771c24b33b9a84ba92b0610279e5"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/reqest"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"reqest","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/reqest"},"versions":["0.0.1","2.32.2","2.32.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/reqest/MAL-2025-966.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":"REPORTER"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}