MAL-2024-10034

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/hello-world-package-test/MAL-2024-10034.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2024-10034
Published
2024-09-06T11:29:16Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:53:31.631859Z
Summary
Malicious code in hello-world-package-test (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (8ee148c559a9993ef0660c9183434ff59d2f6430a126a5913ef9a8341b9014ff)

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-generic

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • typosquatting

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "RLMA-2024-08342",
            "import_time": "2024-10-24T00:56:59.995653707Z",
            "sha256": "8834c383b898763df77528490f8fde69de2d37271a28963d4a36b8a2dec2169a",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2024-10-16T14:41:53Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/hello-world-package-test",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.238525441Z",
            "sha256": "6ec758ec3e5857bd09d1962efe779fe1970d838a21ee03a1c2a51854c7aa595d",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/hello-world-package-test",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.260651224Z",
            "sha256": "8ee148c559a9993ef0660c9183434ff59d2f6430a126a5913ef9a8341b9014ff",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/hello-world-package-test",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.523230752Z",
            "sha256": "1ec67dd8dc68984872516a4e3db57466c58af4c282ddeaf8f32615221944471f",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00381",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:51.12764353Z",
            "sha256": "c1ae4dd2bbda1a2a5e1db5dc14aa5580c2bf6f41ac5539736273bec7dbd1af70",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:14:33Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / hello-world-package-test

Package

Name
hello-world-package-test
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Purl
pkg:pypi/hello-world-package-test

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/hello-world-package-test/MAL-2024-10034.json"