MAL-2025-3600

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/hello-wordl/MAL-2025-3600.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-3600
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:39:56.381242Z
Summary
Malicious code in hello-wordl (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (238c137f1939d99c855ef5fedf6f16b67ac8fcd9087d80270475d3eeff8e8c65)

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.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (130b3663b76a97ade6e8b4ac7fd68832b2d953067f5c9f251198e5eca48461e2)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'hello-wordl' @ 0.2.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
Database specific 
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    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2025-05-05T13:40:56Z",
            "import_time": "2025-05-05T14:06:13.854479122Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.0"
            ],
            "sha256": "130b3663b76a97ade6e8b4ac7fd68832b2d953067f5c9f251198e5eca48461e2",
            "source": "ossf-package-analysis"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/hello-wordl",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.091684352Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "d3ea1c780c53f42386d526814ec348487c0c266852a0978b7ec8acc281fe29b3",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/hello-wordl",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.280341304Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "238c137f1939d99c855ef5fedf6f16b67ac8fcd9087d80270475d3eeff8e8c65",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/hello-wordl",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.417397551Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.0"
            ],
            "sha256": "c38b6f059994bf42ed0a0a58d3e6071ef4fca6891e3bea183fb4110810c20133",
            "source": "kam193"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / hello-wordl

Package

Name
hello-wordl
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/hello-wordl

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/hello-wordl/MAL-2025-3600.json"