MAL-2025-191785

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/matlab-cli/MAL-2025-191785.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191785
Published
2025-05-09T08:09:20Z
Modified
2025-12-31T02:54:57.459208Z
Summary
Malicious code in matlab-cli (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (ff0a277d45885a5c1a26f027495e73b5e0aa8b49c7ee3eeafd06cc14e6e8f754)

Importing the module starts a reverse shell

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

Campaign: 2025-05-matlab-cli

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • impersonation

  • The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

  • obfuscation

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "ips": [
            "35.219.55.10"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-05-matlab-cli/matlab-cli",
            "modified_time": "2025-05-09T08:09:20Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.325156678Z",
            "sha256": "1bbbf182e70efaa8e13a47edbbb8ad9338bb3fc3cfe54cf8a2c4ac83fde1f3d2",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-05-matlab-cli/matlab-cli",
            "modified_time": "2025-05-09T08:09:20Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.352996672Z",
            "sha256": "ff0a277d45885a5c1a26f027495e73b5e0aa8b49c7ee3eeafd06cc14e6e8f754",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "0.3",
                "0.1",
                "0.2",
                "0.6",
                "0.4",
                "0.7",
                "0.5",
                "0.8",
                "0.9",
                "0.9.1",
                "0.9.2",
                "1.0"
            ],
            "id": "pypi/2025-05-matlab-cli/matlab-cli",
            "modified_time": "2025-05-09T08:09:20Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.585549354Z",
            "sha256": "2d2fb11265725c77cdafafed262e5d951018744fe0bd7e93da27b08dc94e87da",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "0.1",
                "0.2",
                "0.3",
                "0.4",
                "0.5",
                "0.6",
                "0.7",
                "0.8",
                "0.9",
                "0.9.1",
                "0.9.2",
                "1.0"
            ],
            "id": "pypi/2025-05-matlab-cli/matlab-cli",
            "modified_time": "2025-05-09T08:09:20Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.126891636Z",
            "sha256": "aec89a6a20203e70e79b9a1ddae471719032ab48c3faa1bc2ba01249322e068f",
            "source": "kam193"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / matlab-cli

Package

Name
matlab-cli
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Purl
pkg:pypi/matlab-cli

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
0.9.1
0.9.2
1.*
1.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/matlab-cli/MAL-2025-191785.json"