MAL-2025-191653

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/ptxcompiler/MAL-2025-191653.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191653
Published
2025-10-17T15:20:16Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:55:25.926946Z
Summary
Malicious code in ptxcompiler (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (a157c2b8ad78e45eea0b8e20ef6d466cdefbd686ac62041c13580048283ba7a1)

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.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "6fb09c12b606b89fa81f470dbafc45bd7f34911703a249749201f5592b14513d",
            "modified_time": "2025-12-01T12:54:51Z",
            "id": "RLMA-2025-05627",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T09:09:38.857857906Z",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "fb5c12f1ed4ca2fcf145bd4049f95230aae78757b49e83998e5d4231b0a5017d",
            "modified_time": "2025-10-17T15:20:16.9017Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/ptxcompiler",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "0.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.318781715Z",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "a157c2b8ad78e45eea0b8e20ef6d466cdefbd686ac62041c13580048283ba7a1",
            "modified_time": "2025-10-17T15:20:16.9017Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/ptxcompiler",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "0.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.508859841Z",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "f50578824cb0ffc1ec403c3c7492f20f8dfb922b6beabe21362fbbd8c0ad69bb",
            "modified_time": "2025-10-17T15:20:16.9017Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/ptxcompiler",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.0",
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.331309399Z",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "b0f78fd5d03fddc46ccbdf8789c78ba31f4e2692cdb9b0393775ea871472dc78",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:17:13Z",
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00614",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:20:13.859981539Z",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / ptxcompiler

Package

Name
ptxcompiler
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Purl
pkg:pypi/ptxcompiler

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.0
1.*
1.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/ptxcompiler/MAL-2025-191653.json"