MAL-2025-1512

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/testresearchpackagedc/MAL-2025-1512.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-1512
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2025-12-31T02:55:17.704542Z
Summary
Malicious code in testresearchpackagedc (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (b9a3d67880a7182900acdd5dafdb79bff126438c5538693dbd27c0c0848b2fb3)

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.

Category: 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.

Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

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

Source: ossf-package-analysis (cb6e63a51de79ba3f21f381f82a4f17b1b9627c51173ea1ee6482929813b0511)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'testresearchpackagedc' @ 0.1.6 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
Database specific 
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    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "versions": [
                "0.1.6"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-02-21T17:00:50Z",
            "sha256": "cb6e63a51de79ba3f21f381f82a4f17b1b9627c51173ea1ee6482929813b0511",
            "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
            "import_time": "2025-02-21T17:05:14.825139069Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "93f70e79a91cdc433890cbb2af2356854c11d23ae7255e7d2e5abdfbc8b45fbc",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/testresearchpackagedc",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.449614514Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "b9a3d67880a7182900acdd5dafdb79bff126438c5538693dbd27c0c0848b2fb3",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/testresearchpackagedc",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.633846074Z"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0",
                "0.1.2",
                "0.1.3",
                "0.1.4",
                "0.1.6",
                "0.1.5"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "222c9aab133960ef3a9bc2b06322e8631c93e736b5983572730387ffc09ceae2",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/testresearchpackagedc",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.737141261Z"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0",
                "0.1.2",
                "0.1.3",
                "0.1.4",
                "0.1.5",
                "0.1.6"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "c5c4116e65563422a5bfc464d57acdfb88b55d91e4024fcd766b6d82ad0e090d",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/testresearchpackagedc",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.357262032Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / testresearchpackagedc

Package

Name
testresearchpackagedc
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Purl
pkg:pypi/testresearchpackagedc

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.1.2
0.1.3
0.1.4
0.1.5
0.1.6

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/testresearchpackagedc/MAL-2025-1512.json"