MAL-2025-191722

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/evil-py-argo-shell/MAL-2025-191722.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191722
Published
2025-11-24T13:19:35Z
Modified
2026-03-17T23:01:32.210428Z
Summary
Malicious code in evil-py-argo-shell (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee)

Package demonstrate potentially malicious execution of system commands, and seems to be used for pentesting purposes

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-simple-tests

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
            "sha256": "62a70f79e3901af2f9b191e6b6da470a4fa3588fdfdefe043cf145ff6b8bd24e",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.2",
                "0.1.1",
                "0.1.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.015696197Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
            "sha256": "1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.2",
                "0.1.1",
                "0.1.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.214513054Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
            "sha256": "211d2fa701e559dae3b4dee75be2f9b1e802ebd79ed5d98c038164473b01fa08",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0",
                "0.1.1",
                "0.1.2"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.284750785Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
            "sha256": "5d1bf0a86f51282ab0606be0682316d0b7e4002c50df4060871628d5e76badbc",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0",
                "0.1.1",
                "0.1.2"
            ],
            "import_time": "2026-03-17T22:46:38.477695717Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / evil-py-argo-shell

Package

Name
evil-py-argo-shell
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Purl
pkg:pypi/evil-py-argo-shell

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.1.1
0.1.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/evil-py-argo-shell/MAL-2025-191722.json"