{"id":"MAL-2025-969","summary":"Malicious code in reqiest (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (ae04fab0eca7fc7fee7494d9651df8a18dbe919cd8c0fa56522711b9f845aa25)\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":"2026-03-19T12:56:18.183432Z","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":[{"source":"reversing-labs","versions":["2.32.2","2.32.3"],"id":"RLMA-2025-00510","import_time":"2025-02-03T18:38:08.604876665Z","modified_time":"2025-02-03T17:07:47Z","sha256":"fb7e67ffcb0752f64c069c30ae3c56c976ca00cd1537c82c3c0e481d246138b0"},{"id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqiest","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.531776998Z","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"198b2afa2e11355a32d3633f59be1fdae6f45cef2b6bb6c7623fc5711d03ab6f","source":"kam193"},{"id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqiest","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.569426052Z","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"sha256":"ae04fab0eca7fc7fee7494d9651df8a18dbe919cd8c0fa56522711b9f845aa25","source":"kam193"},{"source":"kam193","versions":["2.32.3","2.32.2"],"id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqiest","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.778350504Z","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","sha256":"0ab04506008fe98ae76409508391150d7c4510c6eb4c811242a24dad1a7ec05a"},{"versions":["2.32.2","2.32.3"],"id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqiest","import_time":"2025-12-30T22:39:04.159881703Z","modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","sha256":"509af45d62461201a8ec2bbc9979523b7c3245d7f4905988bf86d71fd4301536","source":"kam193"},{"id":"RLUA-2026-00698","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:21.800679723Z","modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:18:08Z","sha256":"e5a5b034cc102af3bf2185a5d4d1fc0ae9ea1a964f84e89a67e4519c0cfd7315","source":"reversing-labs"}]},"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/reqiest"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"reqiest","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/reqiest"},"versions":["2.32.2","2.32.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/reqiest/MAL-2025-969.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"}]}