MAL-2025-191772

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/kdewebhelper/MAL-2025-191772.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191772
Published
2025-11-20T22:25:56Z
Modified
2025-12-31T02:54:30.485544Z
Summary
Malicious code in kdewebhelper (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (da8701a407522875f63d2aaa28d27194fe8e2faa4d7782fd66639f224ae62dcd)

Importing the module connects to a Telegram bot and provides its operator with abilities to execute commands, exfiltrate and encrypt data. The target group seems to be KDE developers, according to the package description

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

Campaign: 2025-11-kdewebhelper

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-generic

  • The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

  • exfiltration-credentials

  • rat

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "3fbce0ccdeb2130c43ff49cb4bf2ac3afe3510ea087d8b6d874ecbeea06a17a0",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-20T22:25:56.069928Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-11-kdewebhelper/kdewebhelper",
            "versions": [
                "1.5.0",
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.294905358Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "da8701a407522875f63d2aaa28d27194fe8e2faa4d7782fd66639f224ae62dcd",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-20T22:25:56.069928Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-11-kdewebhelper/kdewebhelper",
            "versions": [
                "1.5.0",
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.319998696Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "a4319bd914e8731bf099ad4fd307100cce319b54525c3b1730d49009e29af63a",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-11-20T22:25:56.069928Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-11-kdewebhelper/kdewebhelper",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.5.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.114355376Z"
        }
    ],
    "iocs": {
        "urls": [
            "https://github.com/Caspia-n/kdewebhelper"
        ]
    }
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / kdewebhelper

Package

Name
kdewebhelper
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Purl
pkg:pypi/kdewebhelper

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0
1.5.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/kdewebhelper/MAL-2025-191772.json"