MAL-2025-2960

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/evil-pkg1/MAL-2025-2960.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-2960
Published
2024-08-23T22:55:41Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:52:53.912595Z
Summary
Malicious code in evil-pkg1 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (f3f9795022d3525ac5206d67f60906020987aabf1bf4580b48d7ac7c6429108c)

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": [
        {
            "id": "RLMA-2025-01958",
            "sha256": "cc9b70f736586afbe9b8333614541672998b5abc96bd4f31b05efef94bdae2f7",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "versions": [
                "0.2"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:05:37Z",
            "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:05.490439241Z"
        },
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-pkg1",
            "sha256": "3f5e1a73b990d977aa2790b256d5af90a34e9362dc32122ac26d6b2a36a03811",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-08-23T22:55:41Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.013092421Z"
        },
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-pkg1",
            "sha256": "f3f9795022d3525ac5206d67f60906020987aabf1bf4580b48d7ac7c6429108c",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-08-23T22:55:41Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.211706323Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-pkg1",
            "sha256": "72f0591ef3d8cfebf595e501f68ee135d5655d8e472c401dedff59717327fd50",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.2"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-08-23T22:55:41Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.349616664Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00303",
            "sha256": "fbdc2ae30cdc8a58a29ff574c4e7ab1b52643a6bb4445abdf8ff19da7ac47e98",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:13:37Z",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:43.523252438Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / evil-pkg1

Package

Name
evil-pkg1
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Purl
pkg:pypi/evil-pkg1

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/evil-pkg1/MAL-2025-2960.json"