MAL-2025-4210

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/chosenrce18/MAL-2025-4210.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-4210
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:51:38.188023Z
Summary
Malicious code in chosenrce18 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (254a6f89fa4e8c08d6ac8622c13f3aa2e4213b57587fa14db03b51e32e406f96)

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-2025-02562",
            "import_time": "2025-05-22T14:06:34.586771131Z",
            "sha256": "5997b6b0806140b74c5c1c74d5d6a4ead40b1012e764916248b50efd1fa90e1c",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2025-05-22T12:33:28Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/chosenrce18",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.942571049Z",
            "sha256": "da13fc209516afa1165fe7aeebde261609d94561675c922cd1eb65132400c753",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/chosenrce18",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.131962865Z",
            "sha256": "254a6f89fa4e8c08d6ac8622c13f3aa2e4213b57587fa14db03b51e32e406f96",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/chosenrce18",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.268083563Z",
            "sha256": "0e10314f82261da2382030092a7cb9134297d212b95bea3bc356825ef38e1f6a",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00191",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:33.417657716Z",
            "sha256": "ebc0d422ccc5b48a2ad56d13e8f505d159c22c65ef0733d18623c82207cfc19f",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:12:22Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / chosenrce18

Package

Name
chosenrce18
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Purl
pkg:pypi/chosenrce18

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/chosenrce18/MAL-2025-4210.json"