MAL-2025-192930

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/pxdbench/MAL-2025-192930.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-192930
Published
2025-12-25T11:04:53Z
Modified
2025-12-25T12:20:55.566852Z
Summary
Malicious code in pxdbench (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (d0668ec9c7f4535009661c430bc932c09667a7d31aa3f8912a09c65afc21f529)

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.

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-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/pxdbench",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-25T12:11:41.396730458Z",
            "sha256": "d0668ec9c7f4535009661c430bc932c09667a7d31aa3f8912a09c65afc21f529",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0",
                "0.0.0"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-12-25T11:04:53.645032Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / pxdbench

Package

Name
pxdbench
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Purl
pkg:pypi/pxdbench

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*

0.0.0
0.1.0