MAL-2025-6433

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/anku2-rce/MAL-2025-6433.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-6433
Published
2025-07-16T10:50:59Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:50:10.816513Z
Summary
Malicious code in anku2-rce (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (4a0fdfa7bc3195d177e4d6e3dcad16eb59cc436e2b4dc48230b0c088546086fe)

Installing starts a reverse shell

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

Campaign: 2025-07-anku2-rce

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

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

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "RLMA-2025-03517",
            "import_time": "2025-08-01T10:07:08.88815133Z",
            "sha256": "2314ca216dbc96a88bbe41d29146515491f6ea18243de5c7b404c3c605b18397",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-31T19:13:57Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.1",
                "0.0.2"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-07-anku2-rce/anku2-rce",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.903176045Z",
            "sha256": "8316954c2bde1e576829dee228a7192007fdbc98382233f0a9aa243b804b19fa",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-16T10:50:59.944152Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-07-anku2-rce/anku2-rce",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:17.947309694Z",
            "sha256": "4a0fdfa7bc3195d177e4d6e3dcad16eb59cc436e2b4dc48230b0c088546086fe",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-16T10:50:59.944152Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-07-anku2-rce/anku2-rce",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.252893047Z",
            "sha256": "8cd81237a7437dc22233c906893fe125b9a8f3b14907db395a7034e018846c4d",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-16T10:50:59.944152Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.1",
                "0.0.2"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00066",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:22.407134127Z",
            "sha256": "b2f0675a57d584aecf57d04f037bdd37951db34d74fd7ff3f651bbde1f189986",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:11:01Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / anku2-rce

Package

Name
anku2-rce
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Purl
pkg:pypi/anku2-rce

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1
0.0.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/anku2-rce/MAL-2025-6433.json"