MAL-2025-191864

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/seclab-research-depconf-test-2/MAL-2025-191864.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191864
Published
2025-08-22T11:04:10Z
Modified
2025-12-03T00:33:02.451041Z
Summary
Malicious code in seclab-research-depconf-test-2 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (c4210a0224d23d330894d4d8e0f694f3c81a4fb7b71d5056636aecf98fd9b6f6)

Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm.

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": [
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.0"
            ],
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.391283681Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-22T11:04:10.085168Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/seclab-research-depconf-test-2",
            "sha256": "893c6c92743c10d28bb04a27a858407140182708ec23293a18950bbedd30ba4b"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.0"
            ],
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.578207573Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-22T11:04:10.085168Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/seclab-research-depconf-test-2",
            "sha256": "c4210a0224d23d330894d4d8e0f694f3c81a4fb7b71d5056636aecf98fd9b6f6"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / seclab-research-depconf-test-2

Package

Name
seclab-research-depconf-test-2
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Purl
pkg:pypi/seclab-research-depconf-test-2

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/seclab-research-depconf-test-2/MAL-2025-191864.json"