MAL-2025-41756

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/rtxt-dep4/MAL-2025-41756.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-41756
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:56:49Z
Summary
Malicious code in rtxt-dep4 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (927a9dbf7483280f63719ca53cf98986f15e2244e8108ae037557ab2d728de75)

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-2025-04251",
            "import_time": "2025-08-29T06:41:53.068243822Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-28T07:11:51Z",
            "sha256": "5ac2183c6350abdc5136f80cebf1085710658fec002d33bb4bf24b12cac2b911",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "versions": [
                "3.3.7"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep4",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.382136656Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "5dbc56b495d2b0738f85f3e15260a463d4b3821d3ce14443e11aa851fb6cf28b",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep4",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.569381636Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "927a9dbf7483280f63719ca53cf98986f15e2244e8108ae037557ab2d728de75",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep4",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.672685176Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "5e77495ccf93d28e5d2b7a5e16bf04cc8f3083dcc8f55561b5540afc1effe2e2",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "3.3.7"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00737",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:20:25.537087235Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:18:34Z",
            "sha256": "87a303bcf8c3e686e883da643bbd32cc1096bbcb6b5f95b5c351acca8c5f94f7",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / rtxt-dep4

Package

Name
rtxt-dep4
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Purl
pkg:pypi/rtxt-dep4

Affected ranges

Affected versions

3.*
3.3.7

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/rtxt-dep4/MAL-2025-41756.json"