MAL-2025-3565

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/soultracker/MAL-2025-3565.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-3565
Published
2024-08-23T22:55:41Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:42:28.959643Z
Summary
Malicious code in soultracker (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (3f60b37d84566711ce6977710fcb74c3358a2c95655c8e115dbb863f67ff4009)

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.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (f0f648527ba68ae34fd8b933322846afca713f9d9649424c3cd01ddc9431d9de)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'soultracker' @ 0.1.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.
Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2025-05-01T04:30:49Z",
            "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
            "sha256": "f0f648527ba68ae34fd8b933322846afca713f9d9649424c3cd01ddc9431d9de",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-05-01T11:05:19.244529265Z"
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2024-08-23T22:55:41Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "3c5d0d49f58d2bf68cbf2e58a316e6415ffcba7625118f13b095b51cdfa0b872",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/soultracker",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.410759849Z"
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2024-08-23T22:55:41Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "3f60b37d84566711ce6977710fcb74c3358a2c95655c8e115dbb863f67ff4009",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/soultracker",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.596637818Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/soultracker",
            "modified_time": "2024-08-23T22:55:41Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "sha256": "2e92bb074f1b077141db318290cb0ac730d6689217a2fac1703d38edbdcc38fc",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.700960635Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / soultracker

Package

Name
soultracker
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Purl
pkg:pypi/soultracker

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*

0.1.0