MAL-2025-1961

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/akatest/MAL-2025-1961.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-1961
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:49:59Z
Summary
Malicious code in akatest (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (85ef10e21c20c3c7e5e453a0708a581cb88d8f37961da7c93af948848756fd3d)

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": "RLMA-2025-01196",
            "import_time": "2025-03-03T15:07:13.612384274Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-03T13:44:36Z",
            "sha256": "fb2f7aa8c6a4ccc9ee0dc182bb960f9e6850ecedc358c21b2beb39d5ccbb3c83",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "versions": [
                "0.2",
                "0.3",
                "0.4"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/akatest",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.82581522Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "358feeacf0c08b281899b5c35ce6b74a1d56bc3ae90d83a84f0101944cd96e1b",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/akatest",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.005037579Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "85ef10e21c20c3c7e5e453a0708a581cb88d8f37961da7c93af948848756fd3d",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/akatest",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.153040617Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "27dade3f3b8cda7fd856dc45e69fb17f279fdac3f107862ad85586e08ffa184b",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.3",
                "0.2",
                "0.4"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/akatest",
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.264898425Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "00b2131a75f5a6e4995e576c034582612fc83c9596589e21b30f2e8e99c56b23",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.2",
                "0.3",
                "0.4"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00051",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:21.407064948Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:10:52Z",
            "sha256": "0536cdcda07b0f4acf862d795de9eb78342dc1ec2231d202992f4e6ec6415c42",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / akatest

Package

Name
akatest
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Purl
pkg:pypi/akatest

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.2
0.3
0.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/akatest/MAL-2025-1961.json"