MAL-2025-3018

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/whalebone7-poc/MAL-2025-3018.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-3018
Published
2024-09-06T11:29:16Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:58:24.991259Z
Summary
Malicious code in whalebone7-poc (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (ebd207a56329855d7d146895e375b39fcbe907f6ff2e7489a80bbe7c6d4a01fc)

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

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

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-generic

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

  • typosquatting

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "sha256": "978ae30dd556467c7d85643cafb7a1387c25cb36722109096883c8f10bc11329",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.4"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:07.479804647Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:06:31Z",
            "id": "RLMA-2025-02017"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "c3d4c5b0f832fd1a0c08f365fd1d025713609fd8b3b19f76c73f16ceae4b5a14",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.76918248Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/whalebone7-poc"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "ebd207a56329855d7d146895e375b39fcbe907f6ff2e7489a80bbe7c6d4a01fc",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.813004394Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/whalebone7-poc"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "sha256": "42e3fe3802f956064dbfe5cf986e0b22a8d0637abf9c7e1441c6a16c8a5840ca",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.4"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.987861519Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/whalebone7-poc"
        },
        {
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "sha256": "3229ec52e62244118ff2b839c6132a3d74a206bdcaeb54a0ed3fe56533409aa7",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:20:44.222929324Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:20:35Z",
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00927"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / whalebone7-poc

Package

Name
whalebone7-poc
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Purl
pkg:pypi/whalebone7-poc

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/whalebone7-poc/MAL-2025-3018.json"