MAL-2024-5101

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/easyhttprequest/MAL-2024-5101.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2024-5101
Aliases
  • SNYK-PYTHON-EASYHTTPREQUEST-6139264
Published
2024-06-25T13:35:06Z
Modified
2025-12-03T00:21:25.908004Z
Summary
Malicious code in easyhttprequest (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (2b8f76adb9701e490a7cb89a6457afd1ce1cbe67712cdca356da7f35791ba993)

Clone of the requests package. During installation, it downloads a git repository and attempts to execute a script from its commit message

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

Campaign: 2023-12-09-easyhttprequest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

  • Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

  • clones-real-package

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "urls": [
            "https://github.com/isaaknikolaev/PySocks",
            "https://github.com/isaaknikolaev/PySocks.git"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2024-06-25T13:35:06Z",
            "versions": [
                "2.31.5",
                "2.31.4"
            ],
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "sha256": "388de2c20294368ff9d6bb19c7186f425e1aa8aa2626055f1c79601cc5127e2f",
            "id": "RLMA-2024-03881",
            "import_time": "2024-06-28T02:48:54.023055223Z"
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2024-10-16T14:40:08Z",
            "sha256": "e403455ee47272b28fe57bd3d7b76fee0300e9f68f412f99f6731844760a06ea",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "id": "RLUA-2024-08178",
            "import_time": "2024-10-24T00:59:09.652100838Z"
        },
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-11-29T22:03:31Z",
            "sha256": "e429c7eb8d552d814158f47a9601620b9245ec31a710c2af8b005aac9f8ebae3",
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2023-12-09-easyhttprequest/easyhttprequest",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.117723594Z"
        },
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-11-29T22:03:31Z",
            "sha256": "2b8f76adb9701e490a7cb89a6457afd1ce1cbe67712cdca356da7f35791ba993",
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2023-12-09-easyhttprequest/easyhttprequest",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.129525589Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / easyhttprequest

Package

Name
easyhttprequest
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/easyhttprequest

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.31.4
2.31.5