MAL-2025-191944

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/zscaner/MAL-2025-191944.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191944
Published
2025-04-20T12:05:56Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:41:29.156305Z
Summary
Malicious code in zscaner (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (ee09d48ac6f9e7d0460c2a2bc7c9aaae013ce04ac342eb164683b214616e56d1)

Campaign is split into multiple packages that altogether exfiltrates data from desktop Telegram application.

  1. "pyapiepo" is a cover package that provides some useless features BUT also imports "zscaner"
  2. "zscaner", when imported, automatically runs a function that is an entry point to the whole process; it uses the "scan" from "reqinstall" to walk through directories. The package also provides main logic: filtering files, triggering archiving directories and exfiltrating them.
  3. "reqinstall" ensures "requests" are installed and provides a directory tree scanning function.
  4. "zmaker" provides functions to build archives from collected files.
  5. "zsender" provides functions to exfiltrate data, the remote URL and a function to deobfuscate configuration in other packages.

Altogether, they look for "Telegram Desktop" folder, archive user data stored there and exfiltrate to a remote location.

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

Campaign: 2025-04-zscaner

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • target:telegram

  • exfiltration-generic

  • The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "urls": [
            "http://77.91.76.45:100/OPEN"
        ],
        "ips": [
            "77.91.76.45"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-04-20T12:05:56Z",
            "sha256": "6668043ae2bc7032a11a782861883035f06c1553fa9a8b2f1ed9f2214c2683de",
            "id": "pypi/2025-04-zscaner/zscaner",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.79750499Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-04-20T12:05:56Z",
            "sha256": "ee09d48ac6f9e7d0460c2a2bc7c9aaae013ce04ac342eb164683b214616e56d1",
            "id": "pypi/2025-04-zscaner/zscaner",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.84137537Z"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.2.0",
                "1.3.0"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-04-20T12:05:56Z",
            "sha256": "6f576cbb5c69265f66e820606e885aa1c9edc89fae12046bb3a7c29cca43eee8",
            "id": "pypi/2025-04-zscaner/zscaner",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.004351118Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / zscaner

Package

Name
zscaner
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Purl
pkg:pypi/zscaner

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.2.0
1.3.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/zscaner/MAL-2025-191944.json"